Word: bernini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal procession moved across St. Peter's Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
...detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies. The blue-clad Palatine Guards wore helmets topped with lazy plumes. Followed many monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church, the last seminarian had not yet emerged. High above droned a squadron of airplanes, spying...
...Bernini," Mr. Opdyke, Fogg Museum...
...Bernini," Mr. Opdycke, Fogg Museum...
...Albert Museum, London, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current year will give the eighth in a series of lectures on Italian Sculpture on Wednesday evening, February 29, in the New Lecture Hall. The two remaining lectures in the course, on "The Sixteenth Century" and "Bernini and the Seventeenth Century" will be given on March 7 and March 14 respectively...