Word: assyria
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ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.During January Dr. Arthur L. Frothingham of Princeton will deliver a series of five lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The dates fixed are the 10th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 26th. The first lecture will be devoted to the earlier archaeological discoveries concerning Babylonia and Assyria: the second to recent discoveries and present theories regarding the philology, ethnography, and literature of the Assyrians. The third and fourth will outline the history of Babylonian and Assyrian Art, and the-fifth the foreign relations of Babylonia and Assyria. The lectures will be given in upper Boylston, and will be illustrated with stereopticon views...
During January Dr. Arthur L. Frothingham of Princeton will deliver a series of five lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The dates fixed are the the 10th. 12th, 18th, 24th, and 26th. The first lecture will be devoted to the earlier archaeological discoveries concerning Babylonia and Assyria: the second to recent discoveries and present theories regarding the philology, ethnography, and literature of the Assyrians. The third and fourth will out line the history of Babylonian and Assyrian Art, and the fifth the foreign relations of Babylonia and Assyria...
...school during the coming winter term. This department will not seek to give technical instruction, but will consist of lectures on the history of art. Prof. Allen Marquand will offer a course to the senior class on art in antiquity, with special reference to the arts of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome. Prof. Prince, of New York, will lecture on the histories of various arts. President McCosh has consented to give a few lectures on aesthetics, and Prof. Osborne on the anatomy of facial expression. The college already possesses several valuable art collections. Among these are interesting collections illustrating...
Students of Fine Arts 3, are familiar with the work on Egyptian art by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez, which was published last year. A new work by the same authors on "The History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria," will be ready in few days. It will contain over five hundred illustrations and comprise two volumes, the style being uniform with that of last year's volumes on Egypt...