Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two Heads. The lavish display of pot-latching carried over even into the religious ceremonies. Indian artists were called on to outdo themselves in carving masks, staffs and rattles. Each symbol and convention had its meaning. The double-profiled portrayals of totem gods were apparently adapted from images first painted...
Actually, the pagan gods died, as gods, long before the collapse of the ancient world. Cicero's De Natura Deorum treats them as 1) historical personages. 2) cosmic symbols, and 3) allegories. Thus translated from the realm of blind faith to that of reason, they became deathless elements in...
Treasure Trove. Almost from the day the atom was split and its energy harnessed, scientists around the world have been longing for such an opportunity to climb over national fences to talk, teach, speculate and dream about the atom's future. By the end of World War II, they...
Illustrating his procedure by picking up a candlestick, Rorimer demonstrates the connoisseur's approach: "My first question would be,-'What did this candlestick really look like originally?' I developed such a passion for cleaning art objects that museum people use to call me 'Mr. Sapolio.'...
Tapestries in the Scrapbook. Rorimer also went on to Harvard, had the advantage of studying under Paul Sachs (who trained most of the nation's art directors and curators). "Our best training at college," Rorimer recalls, "consisted in picking out the finest works of art from large groups of...