Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...embodied in the fundamental conception of chivalry. The crusades were the great event of the period, but even they did not furnish adaquate material to supply the creative spirit of the time, and with the lack of material the power of the creative spirit failed. Thus Mediaeval types of art became grotesques and Mediaeval ideals of life ended in absurdity. The intense feeling for the rational which a familiarity with Greek and Latin classics gave to the Renaissance magnified the ridiculousness of Mediaeval ideals until Cervantes spoke for his age in Don Quixote...
...Yale Art School has opened its annual winter exhibition to the public. The collection was made by L. R. Ehrich...
...oldest student in the college is in the Graduate School. He is seventy-seven years old, graduated from Yale in 1834, and is now here especially to hear Professor Norton's lectures on Dante and Italian Art...
Professor Bocher is to give a series of private lectures on French painting and art criticism in Cambridge this winter...
...lecture last night, on Human Life and Ideals through the Dark and Middle Ages, Professor Marsh began by emphasizing the importance of comparing the present confusion in the forms of art, education and religion, with its growth and development from the Middle Ages. When the fall of the Roman Empire took place, all civilization and culture was enveloped in darkness. From that time until the 12th or 13th century, the whole world was undergoing a complete revolution, as far as civilization was concerned. The skepticism and superstition which had played so important a part in the fall of the Roman...