Word: frescoes
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Music is no longer a seasonal business. When spring darkens the great auditoriums, it also throws open the stadia and amphitheatres which now dot the country. In the U. S. May brings with it Festivals Weeks everywhere; June, July, August bring symphony concerts and opera al fresco. In Europe, more and more cities and villages are bidding for tourist trade with musical programs...
...Mycenean Fresco Painting", Professor Chase, Fogg Lecture Room...
...Vinci's Mona Lisa smiled down with an inscrutability which seemed no different from that which she bestows upon her admirers in the Louvre. The Blue Boy, Gainsborough's polite urchin, wore his own shiny silk breeches and not a shabby imitation. The cracks across a Michaelangelo fresco were so perfectly reproduced by the lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre...
...prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco showing the evolution of Living Church out of Theatre...
...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...