Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Moore, on such a scale that no museum or private collection in the world can match it. An enormous black two-story hall houses a kind of cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Absurd Berlin Diary of Emilio Vedova, with collapsible hinged parts jagging out in a variety of Gothic shapes. Three Paintings in Space by Ernst Wilhelm Nay are obliquely suspended from the ceiling of an otherwise entirely empty hall...
...three churches. The biggest concentration of them is in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Athyn; there, most of the town's population of 1,100 belong to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, which for 51 years has been putting up a magnificent-but still incomplete-Gothic cathedral...
...beautifully landscaped 55-acre campus, on the slopes of Mt. Ida, near Troy, centers on a quadrangle of neo-Gothic dorms and classrooms mostly donated by Alumna Mrs. Russell Sage (wife of a millionaire investor), a library with 19,000 volumes, hockey fields, riding stables, a gymnasium with swimming pool and bowling alleys. Tuition and board costs $3,000, and optional charges (piano lessons, for example) can raise the bill by another $ 1,000. Yet Emma Willard is not a rich school; the endowment per pupil is $2,500, compared to $11,400 for Miss Porter's in Connecticut...
...page), Nepalese monks sprinkled it with holy vermilion powder and packed it in flowers before sending it off to New York. The cast bronze has swelling contours that are not obscured by excessive ornamentation, with as much easy stylization and graceful gesture as the sculpted saints of the contemporary Gothic in Europe. Avalokiteshvara has one advantage to delight a sculptor: he comes in 108 different incarnations. Nepalese sculptors were equally adept at hammering out fully rounded copper-gilt figures from inside. Fond of rich materials, they cast sinuous sculpture in bronze, then fire-gilded it to an eternal luster...
...more than $15 million, Norton Simon, 57, Southern California entrepreneur and art collector (TIME, April 24), bought the gallery's elegant Manhattan mansion and everything in it. The wares include 146 paintings dating from the early Renaissance through the 18th century. There are tapestries ranging from the French Gothic to Francois Boucher's rose damask Gobelins commissioned by Louis XVI, an abundance of porcelains, sculpture, antique furniture, and a rare 4,000-book art library. None of the treasures will go under the hammer or into Norton Simon's private collection. Instead, Simon's separate nonprofit...