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Opening the second series of the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures, Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, C.B.E., F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will deliver tonight his first lecture on the History of Italian Sculpture...
Professor Maclagan, who is an authority on mediaeval art, became a member of the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1905, soon after his graduation from Oxford...
After holding this office for three years, from 1921 to 1924, Professor Maclagan was made Director and Secretary of the Museum, which office he now fills...
...Norton lectures which Professor Maclagan is to give this winter, he will render a comprehensive and unified account of Italian sculpture of the Middle Ages, starting with an introduction leading up to Romanesque sculpture and the Pisani School...
Professor Maclagan dwells on the unobtrusiveness of the building. As the director of a large museum he realizes that often the forest cannot be seen on account of the trees, that the pictures and sculptures are quite overwhelmed by the surrounding magnificence. Therefore he compliments the men responsible for the structure on the restraint and foresight they have exercised. The student of the University may well join with him, in the eulogies he bestows. Assimilation of a large number of pictures is a laborious task. It is ameliorated, however, by the presence of the best possible facilities for viewing those...