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Beginning today and extending through December 18 there will be two exhibitions of reproductions of prints by Durer, Brueghel, Holbein, and modern masters, held in the seminar room, third floor, of the Fogg Museum. Particulars concerning the purchase of these reproductions may be had at the place of exhibition...
This week in the Memorial Room of Widener Library there is an exhibition of Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death," one of the most famous of religious works...
...subject, from the French verses which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject, and the origin of the hint from which Holbein executed his famous painting at Basil...
...down. New countries were opening up?America, Africa. India. The imaginations of men burned with dreams of gold to be brought back by far-ranging ships. Had there been newspapers then, the following names would have been in the headlines? Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Copernicus, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Holbein, Cellini, Erasmus, Cranmer, Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Luther, Rabelais. Machiavelli, Loyola...
...Anne of Cleves, a plain German, no longer young. Henry had seen only Holbein's portrait of her. He married her largely to gain influential friends against France. Seeing her for the first time, he "disliked her person." He went through with the ceremony, set her aside...