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...Artists had their skill to display, and they did so with gusto: combining many figures for maximum drama - see the Florentine Ewer with the Triumph of Neptune (circa 1721) - or freeze-framing a body falling into ecstasy or death, as in a small Bernini clay sketch for Tomb of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (circa 1761-74). Baroque went way over the top and beyond, and this exhibition is the perfect way to revel...
Meredith P. Ewer-Speck ’09 was studying in the Leverett Dining Hall across the street at the time of the incident...
...Among the exhibit's most strikingly bizarre objects is a gilt and silver ewer, which was entombed with Li Xian, a general during the short-lived Northern Zhou dynasty (559-581) in Ningxia. The ewer's shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological...
Eight years later, the little island country-with a population smaller than that of Los Angeles-has mounted an almost $20 million challenge, complete with the requisite space-age, computer-loaded sloop, to wrest the 144-year-old silver ewer from its U.S. berth. The grudge match between Team New Zealand and Team Dennis Conner began last Saturday in the first race of a best-of-nine series, with a resounding victory by the Kiwis aboard Black Magic I. With a possible two more weeks of sailing in the famously fickle breezes off San Diego, the final outcome is still...
...cold war is fading, so let's get down to a more basic conflict: Can the girls beat the boys? Ever since Queen Victoria reluctantly handed over an 8- lb. silver ewer to a team of swaggering American sailors in 1851, the America's Cup (as it was called from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower...