Word: frescos
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amphitheatre or lecture room of the new Harvard Medical School building on Friday last. It was confined to that locality, although considerable damage was done elsewhere by the heat and smoke. The woodwork of the lecture room, including the amphitheatre seats, was totally destroyed, and the ceilings and fresco work ruined. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and was probably caused by spontaneous combustion among painters' rages. The building was damaged nearly $2000. The loss will fall on Woodbury & Leighton, the contractors, who are fully insured...
...life-like portrait of the founder of the gallery of art, Winthrop Hillyer, painted during the present year by N. B. Kittrell. An extensive series of colored plates, representing the noted altar pieces in the most celebrated churches in the world, as well as the master-pieces of fresco painting by the old masters, have also been added to the collection...