Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rosa Bonheur, the celebrated artist, is dangerously...
...statue is to be of bronze and will be placed in the small delta at the west end of Memorial Hall. As we have no representation of John Harvard nor any description of his personal appearance, a very exacting demand is to be made upon the skill of the artist who is to represent the form and features of the founder of our college. Little assistance can be derived from the history of his life. We have no information in regard to his birthplace, parentage or lineage. All we know of his English life is, that he received a bachelor...
...estate, being L800," to the college which the court had decided two years previously to establish at "New Town." After his gift however, the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. This is the extent of our knowledge of John Harvard. With these meaner records to guide the artist the statue must be formed...
...morning in the HERALD-CRIMSON, praises '80s window in Memorial as highly a even an '80 man could desire, but the writer seems to suppose that a mistake was made in setting the window. He says that Mr. LaFarge intended that Virgil should look toward Homer, but that the artist's design has been "sadly thwarted," and the fault when once pointed out lets us see and think of nothing else. I should like to say that the window was put in position by Mr. LaFarge's own men, and that Mr. LaFarge himself was present in the hall...
Virgil is represented as a young man, beautiful, poetic and graceful in pose and face. He stands, his hand upon his hip, turned half away, his head slightly thrown backward. The artist has made the Latin poet to look behind him toward the great singer of Greece, as if asking for sympathy from the shadows of the past: a poetic conceit, but one which has been sadly thwarted by those in charge of placing the windows. According to Mr. Lafarge's design, the figures should turn slightly toward each other, the younger poet as if appealing to his great predecessor...