Word: mediaevel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This pulpit, which is one of the finest monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth...
...Mosque of Tamerlane; the Castle of Neuschwan-stein, in Bavaria; the Sistine Chapel, in Rome; the Louvre, in Paris; Spanish Tapestries; Japanese Costume; prints from the British Museum; statues of gods and athletes, exhibited at the time of the football game; and illustrations of the human figure, ancient, mediaevel, and modern. At Christmas time, the Fogg Museum lent us a collection of photographs appropriate to the season. W. C. LANE, Chairman Library Committee...
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