Word: artful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject of Professor Dorpfeld's third lecture last night in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum was the Acropolis of Athens. A beautiful picture of the Acropolis was thrown on the screen before the lecture began, which transported the audience in imagination to Athens, and brought before their eyes the celebrated citadel of Pallas Athena. Professor Dorpfeld, in his opening words, designated this famous spot as the place where still we get the truest conception of the surpassing beauty of Greek art. Other pictures of the Acropolis were shown, with explanatory comment on its monuments and history...
Students of ancient art and archaeologists had long desired the excavation of the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, with its buildings and countless works of art. Winckelmann planned, as early as the eighteenth century, an international excavation of this celebrated site, but it was reserved for the late Professor Ernst Curtius to carry out the plan. During the years 1875-1881 the entire sanctuary and the places immediately adjacent were laid bare, at the expense ($200,000) of the German government. For four years Professor Dorpfeld was charged with the conduct of the excavations as supervising architect...
Outside the Altis lay the Stadium and Hippodrome, where the Olympic games were celebrated; the Bouleuterium, the ground plan of which had the form of a ship and is still a riddle to the architects; and the palaestra and gymnasium where the athletes exercised. Countless works of art were discovered in Olympia, and beautiful pictures of many of these were thrown on the screen, the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus, the beautiful statue of Victory by Paeonius, and that masterpiece of Greek sculpture, the Hermes of Praxiteles. Besides these the museum which the Greek government has erected...
...photographs of the masterpieces of various artists, which for the past year have hung in the upper room in the Fogg Art Museum have all, with the exception of those of Michael Angelo, been taken down and others substituted in their places. Those which have been on exhibition are now placed in the cabinets with the remainder of the collection, where they may still be seen by those desiring to make a study of such subjects. The collection now numbers about fifteen thousand, and it is intended, for the sake of variety, to change those on exhibition each year...
THERE will be a Republican mass meeting in the Fogg Art Museum on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. Plans for the parade will be discussed. There will be college speakers...