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...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
...since the early Middle Ages. The building itself, thanks to the genius of its designer, Professor Bestelmeyer of Berlin, is, without losing thereby its unity of architectural structure, a combination of the three fundamental styles which successively have dominated all European art; the essential forms of the Romanesque, the Gothic, and the Renaissance periods. It thus is more than merely a convenient place for exhibiting individual works of art; it embodies in itself the totality of the manifold art tendencies, typical specimens of which it shelters; it introduces the visitor into the spiritual atmosphere from which...
...visitor, on entering this museum, it seems to me, can help being impressed with the austere solemnity of the Romanesque hall, the noble delicacy of the Gothic chapel, or the massive splendor of the Renaissance room, and thereby at once being transported into the very spirit of the most significant stages in the development of European culture. This effect of the building itself is heightened by the large collection of architectural views contained in a suite of smaller rooms, views of mediaeval cathedrals and castles, Renaissance city halls and burgher houses, and Baroque and Rococo mansions and palaces. This museum...
...with architecture in many of the great buildings of the world, certain sculptured details from buildings serve admirably as illustrations of these sister arts. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the period of Dryden, Pope, and Addison, and of the pseudo-classic movement, the art of the Romanesque and Gothic periods was scorned and considered barbarous. In the 19th and to a still greater extent in the 20th century the enormous artistic value and signficance of this early work is understood more and more. The Fogg Museum has recently acquired some examples of Romanesque art which are among the noblest...
...sites for the proposed dwellings will be on the tract between Hill Dormitory and the Pennsylvania station, running along University Place. One of these dormitories, housing 170 men, will be the largest on the campus. All of them will be built in the collegiate type of Gothic architecture similar to the buildings of Oxford and Cambridge...