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Harvard coach Bob Harrison identifies the next minute as the turning point in the game. State shot and missed, but two Crimson rebounders "played Alphonse and Gaston." Harrison said, and lost the ball...
Along with Gaston, he begins with such elementary procedures as how to lay out the hunt party's lunch, moves on to more sophisticated exercises like setting snares or stalking wild fowl with an artificial cow. One of the most charming illuminations illustrates the high art of camouflage. The huntsman, drawn in a simple wagon by a white palfrey, has concealed himself and the wagon behind leaves and branches...
Head Start on Heaven. By the end of the 14th century, miniaturists had become highly sophisticated and confidently eclectic, adopting whatever suited them out of Hellenic, Byzantine or Oriental styles. The Gaston miniaturist was keenly observant of nature, as his grazing mountain goats testify. When it came to portraying the rugged Pyrenees, however, he resorted to stylized mountains that turn up frequently in Byzantine, Italian and French illuminations. In place of the sky, he painted a decorative pattern common in Middle East miniatures. Though he had not yet learned how to model his figures to give them a more lifelike...
...medieval art rendered man some what smaller than life, hunting hyperbole more than made up for it. Gaston even went so far as to suggest that sportsmen had a head start on heaven. "By hunting, one avoids the sin of indolence," he reasoned. "And according to our faith, he who avoids the seven mortal sins will be saved; therefore, the good sportsmen will be saved." Popes Julius II, Leo X and Pius II-who wrote his own treatise on venery under his Christian name, Aeneas Silvius-all enthusiastically rode to hounds. And while papal edict forbade monks to hunt...
...Gaston, for his part, displayed the gallantry expected of a noble knight to the very end, giving his life in 1391 to rescue one of his favorite hounds from a mauling bear...