Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum, M. Andre Michel, Conservator of Sculpture in the Louvre, will lecture on "The Cathedral at Chatres." M. Michel's lecture will be in French, and it will be illustrated by stereopticon views. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, and is open to the public...
...Plato's Conception of Art;" 2. "Greek Myths of Which the Sole Evidence is in Works of Art;" 3. "The Part Taken by Women in Greek Culture;" 4. "Greek Armor with Especial Reference to the Form and Ornamentation of the Helmet;" 5. "The Influence of Greek Art on Greek Lyric and Tragic Poets...
...other gifts which are about to be made to Harvard University. A year ago last April, after the friendly reception of his royal highness Prince Henry of Prussia by the people of the United States, there was formed in Berlin a committee of leading men of science, art, literature and finance, with the view of supplementing the emperor's donation by a gift from the German people. The committee decided upon a collection of galvanoplastic reproductions of representative works of German gold and silver work. This costly collection is now nearly completed, and I have been authorized to state that...
Professor Kuno Francke Curator of the Germanic Museum, emphasized the value that such a Museum might be in helping the student to visualize his ideas of German art and "to adapt his sensual perception to the objects of his study." He spoke also of the power the Museum might become in helping to check narrow specialization, by bringing together "the art student and the philologist, the student of political as well as of literary history." Hon. Carl Schurz, President of the Germanic Museum Association spoke of the Museum as a instance of and help to international friendship between Germany...
...Faculty, welcomed the Germanic Museum as an addition to our general back-ground of culture. He spoke of the spirit of study here.--minute research, mainly, as derived from Germany, and said that Harvard could recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works are so communicable and urbane. In spite of this...