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...last week in West Point's grey Gothic mess hall the cadets of the U. S. Military Academy looked up from their meal, beheld for the first time the final and complete version of Decisive Battles of the World. A 70-ft. mural by T. (for Tom) Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted...
...capital. Late in the materialistic 19th Century The Cathedral Church of Saints Peter & Paul was begun on Washington's Mount St. Alban. Last week a stanch Presbyterian displayed two stained glass windows, designed for the National Cathedral, and executed with the simple, wholehearted reverence of the Gothic 13th Century. Already the author of 13 National Cathedral windows, Lawrence Bradford Saint made his- latest pair to flank the stairway to the crypt in the North Transept, as a memorial to the late William T. Hildrup Jr., Pennsylvania steel products manufacturer...
...show is Lorenzo Monaco, Siena-born, Florence-bred. He was followed by a virile stampede of topnotch Florentine painters : Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Andrea del Castagno, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking pictures: a huge, bullnecked Christ crucified whose dead skin lies in ghastly contrast against...
...Acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and considered "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum" was (1 The Artist's Mother-Whistler, 2 American Gothic-Wood, 3 Mono. Lisa-da Vinci, 4 The Card Players-Cezanne, S Venus and the Lute Player-Titian...
...Yale's Gothic Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, now split into two Yale colleges, was the gift of his mother, Anna M. Richardson Harkness...