Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock. This will be the third of a series of ten public lectures under the auspices of the club. Following are the names of other Harvard men who will speak, and the dates of their lectures: March 31, Mr. William R. Ware '71, "The Beginnings of Gothic;" April 23, Mr. W. P. P. Longfellow '55. "The Italian Renaissance...
...best of its kind and was possible only at this time. He showed how much better the work on Chartres was than that of Aries, where the figures are heavy and uninteresting. He then displayed pictures of figures at the top of the columns of the portals showing their Gothic difference, and their individuality...
...Michel pointed out the development of architecture in the cathedral, as shown by the difference in the portals, especially by the figures in the south portals which were cut by skilled sculptors. The cathedral of Chartres, he thought the best monument of Gothic architecture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...
...deWitte Washburn of the Architectural department will speak before the Pen and Brush Club tonight at 8 o'clock in the lecture room of Robinson Hall. The subject will be "The spirit of Gothic architecture...
Wandering through Europe during the last six months I have again been deeply impressed by the wonderful beauty of the Gothic cathedrals, their noble architecture, their windows of splendid colored glass, their numberless memorials to men and women of all degrees for public services and private virtues, to children, to rich harvests, to plagues, to victories; and I have again been filled with awe and with admiration of their builders...