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Last week, without fanfare or controversy, Epstein was about to place one of his religious works in a church. The work: an ungainly but powerful white stone figure of Lazarus. The church: the 14th century Gothic chapel at New College, Oxford. The deal was closed when New College Warden Alic Halford Smith, in Epstein's studio to sit for a portrait bust, admired the Lazarus, decided to buy it on the spot. No financial details were disclosed, except that a "substantial" check was sent to the artist. Back at Oxford, New College officials were so pleased that they planned...
...Midwest showed signs of vigor. Hamlin Garland had begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...
...station's schedule, released yesterday, features Dixieland, swing, and modern jazz from today until 12 midnight on January 10. Other programs will be devoted to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music through Bach; Haydn, Mozart and pre-Beethoven; Beethoven; the Romantics; the Moderns from R. Strauss; Gilbert and Sullivan and opera...
Chartres' windows have made the cathedral world-famed. Among the earliest surviving examples of Gothic stained glass, they are also the best. Yet the men who created them were amateurs, who may have had some knowledge of enameling but had little or none of glass. They learned as they worked. Each tiny fragment of glass, averaging an eighth of an inch thick, was chipped with the care and precision that jewels require. Laid flat on a full-scale drawing of the window, the fragments were inserted into the grooves of malleable lead bars that formed the panels. Only after...
...also a one-dimensional effect; the first Gothic glaziers had neither the inclination nor the techniques for achieving a pictorial illusion of space. And, seen close-to, the drawing is childishly crude. The figures are as bodiless as shadows stopped upon a screen; they gesture with puppetlike stiffness. For all that, they look wonderfully alive, shining through the blaze of color like prophets in a fiery furnace...