Word: gothic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frankfort, later in Berlin. Seldom in the past 800 years have people been permitted to see it. Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
Apart from its great intrinsic value the Guelph treasure fills a great gap in the history of art as shown in U. S. museums. Wise purchases and liberal gifts have made the U. S. comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century...
...fabric (rubble and cut stone) of Cluny carried on the tradition of the archaic Romanesque, while giving the promise of the typical fabric of the twelfth-century Romanesque and suggesting more vaguely an articulated structure of the Gothic period. The splendid decoration of the building centered upon a great frescoed Christ in the principal apse--a painting probably inspired by Italy and more remotely Byzantine and Early Christian work, but there was in addition a marvelous profusion of sculpture, representing the Romanesque tradition newly formed under the auspices of the monks...
With his gift Mr. Hurley made a re quest: that the six study-halls in the pro posed collegiate Gothic building be named for "distinguished American industrial leaders of international vision;" that an oil painting of each be hung to remind the students of "his boyhood struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...
...Spanish History in the Gothic Period," Professor Post, Fogg Small Lecture Room...