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...earliest dated Florentine book illustrated with a woodcut dates from 1490. After about 1500 the art declined so that it was at its height for only a short time...
...Life of Christ of the twelfth century shows rather crude but effective paintings suggesting the technique of the earliest painted glass...
Three primitives have recently been added to the Fogg Museum collection of paintings. The earliest of these is an interesting little panel of the Madonna and Child, dating from some time before 1275. The panel is said to have come originally from Montalcino-and is a work of the Tuscan School. The panel was given to the Museum by Professor Frank Jewett Mather Jr. of Princeton...
...since that earliest cave dweller, feeling the pangs of creation within him, scratched upon the bones of one animal the sensuous visage of another, have the children of dream gone unchallenged by many. Is it that after the lucid history of centuries the reason, the merit, the meaning, the value of art is still doubtful? Remembering Greece, and Athens that should make Rome vital, and Byzantium that should trumpet Italy out of stupid darkness, and the Latin Renaissance that should succour Europe even to the present moment, can any pen deny those who would look upon football as a momentary...
...possible in the colonial menu for the dinner tonight a dinner of 200 years ago when the hall was built and presented to the University by a charter from the Province of Massachusetts. Rare pieces of old silver, given to the University from time to time since its earliest days, will be used on the table. A number of old photographs of Massachusetts Hall and other University buildings will be on exhibition and a pamphlet on "The Building of Massachusetts Hall" has been prepared for distribution by W. G. Lane '81, Librarian of the Harvard College Library. R. Chute...