Word: gothicized
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...Gainsborough was knocked down for $6,700, a Joshua Reynolds landscape for only $1,600, a Jan Steen for $3,200, a Rembrandt Peale Washington for $3,400. A Chippendale mahogany and needlepoint settee sold for $2,600; two silver chocolate pots and brandy saucepan for $820. Three Gothic stained & painted glass panels and a roundel were taken out of the west window for $1,400. Then the auctioneers walked all over the house, auctioning as they went, sold off even the servants' billiard table downstairs. Total proceeds...
...Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city...
...Morgan Collection of Manuscripts is the only one of its kind and scope in this country; none but the great libraries and cathedral treasuries of Europe contain such splendid works, covering nearly every school of illumination, from the eighth century to the end of the Gothic...
From France of the same century comes a manuscript of black outlines, strong reds and blues and formal figures, evidently based on Gothic stained glass. Of the thirteenth is a fragment of one of the immense "Moralized Bibles," so seldom completed. It is opened at the page showing the youthful St. Louis and his mother, Queen Blanche of Castille, and it was made in their lifetime. These eight leaves were taken from the Bible which is still preserved in the Chapter Library of the Cathedral at Toledo; it is reassuring to read in the Morgan Catalogue that they were already...
...took a bicycle trip through southern France, assembled an extraordinary collection of medieval sculpture. Selling most of it to dealers, he made enough to keep his 15 workmen employed in his huge studio near Paris. With what he did not sell, he started the finest private collection of Gothic and Romanesque sculpture in the U. S. This he placed in a private museum next to his studio in upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated money to buy the entire collection for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fortnight ago came news of more Rockefeller munificence...