Word: frescoe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work...
...acting and the pictorial effects, and the lack of any attempt at claiming individual attention is what makes these plays the complete and rounded productions that they are. One does not feel that he has witnessed a theatrical performance--but rather the passing by of a delicate fresco come to life from the fourteenth century. In substance, in production, and in sympathetic understanding, the Club's presentation of the plays is of the best. Certainly the custom, with such unique opportunities for music and setting as Harvard possesses, is an admirable one--and one that will be increasingly applauded...
Decorations for the Yale Music Building, Bryn Mawr College, and the Church of St. John the Divine of New York City are among the examples of sculpture on display. The most notable of the paintings are the costume designs of the Dramatic Club production, "The Liar," a fresco copy of the School of Botticelli, and cover designs for the Lampoon. There are also oil and water color landscapes, still life studies, and portrait drawings in several mediums...
...frescoes, which are 800 years old, are the work of an unknown artist. The central oval seems to be an inspiration from Revelations, IV: "After this I looked . . . and behold a throne was set in heaven and One sat on the throne. And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." The rest of the painting treats of the Apostles and the Nativity. After the casts over the fresco were removed, the cheese was scraped off by hand...
...Hawes, assistant director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will give an illustrated lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum on "Twelfth Century Apsidal Fresco from a Catalonian Church, Now Being Installed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts." The talk will be open to the public...