Word: classicistic
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...proudest of seven newly acquired studies by the 19th-Century Frenchman Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who believed that drawing is seven-eighths of art. His penciled portraits had all the icy perfection, but not the controlled fire of the Renaissance greats. Said Classicist Ingres: "Let us not admire Rembrandt and the others through thick and thin; let us not compare them. . . to the divine Raphael and the Italian School; that would be blaspheming...
While Michelangelo was furiously improving the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II, a handful of Papuans were equally hard at work in a New Guinea clubhouse. They fashioned masks 10 feet high out of bark. Each mask represented a mythological spirit, but no Renaissance classicist could have recognized the 100 weird, bearded birds and sharp toothed half-humans who emerged, after ten years of labor, from the clubhouse. And Europeans, who like to think of art as immortal, would have been amazed to see the masks burned (after a month of ceremonial dances) amid the acclamations...
...noted classicist, Hammond is one of the few men to hold teaching positions in two departments, being in both the Classics and the History departments. Among his other distinctions are a degree summa cum laude from the College, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the degrees of B. A. and B.Litt. from Balliol College, Oxford. From 1937 to 1939 he was Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome...
Died. Dr. Edward Kennard Rand, 73, Harvard classicist famed for his well-dried Horatian wit; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. As a onetime ex change professor at the Sorbonne, he offered as the secret of successful Latin instruction: a teacher feminine, fair-&-20, and French...
Thus far, there has been one brilliant program: the contrast of the great intellectual classicist, Bach, and the great intellectual romantic, Berlioz. But, on another night, the audience was subjected to a double dose of Sibelfus, with a new Martina symphony thrown in; last Saturday the orchestra would up its program with Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, and broadcast...