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...Kenneth E. Meister '72, a candidate in the CRR election said, "More people believe it's better to be represented on a committee that is not ideal rather than not be represented at all. A lot of kids could get hurt without student representation...
Harvard's John Boyle, competing in all four events, totaled enough points to grab second place in the ski-meister competition...
...German art lovers, the greatest curiosity was the St. Barbara altarpiece from Finland's National Museum in Helsinki-Meister Francke's earliest known work. Its eight richly painted panels sum up the characteristic ambiguities of Meister Francke's style. In The Flagellation of St. Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness...
Christ as the Man of Sorrows displays the same blend of mannered elegance and gory realism. But the triumph of Meister Francke's mature style is seen in the St. Thomas of Canterbury altar piece, painted after 1424 for a group of Hamburg merchants trading with England. The nine panels of this darkly glowing work depict episodes in the life of Thomas à Becket, together with scenes from the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, achieving a peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop...
Splendid Miracle. Little is known of Meister Francke's life. He is believed to have been a Dominican friar who came from the Geldern region of The Netherlands and studied or worked in Paris or Burgundy before settling in Hamburg. Probably he spent his life in monkish seclusion (like his contemporary Fra Angelico in Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away...