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Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
...Gray Collection by purchase: The Adoration of the Magi, and S. Thomas, engravings by Martin Schongauer; Dumbarton Rock, Leader Sea-Piece, and Morpeth, etchings from the series of Turner's Liber Studiorum. Three prints have been purchased for the Randall Collection, namely: The Climbers, engraving by Marcantonio after Michelangelo, which is one of the few remaining traces of Michelangelo's famous cartoon of the "Battle with the Pisans" which strangely disappeared; a fine impression of the Judgment of Paris, also by Marcantonio, after Raphael; and Holy Island Cathedral, etching by Turner for the Liber Studiorum. The print collection now numbers...
...engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi have been added recently to the Print Collection of the Fogg Museum: the Climbers, after Michelangelo, and the Judgement of Paris, after Raphael. The former is interesting especially because it is one of few contemporaneous copies of the important cartoon, now lost, which represented an episode in the war between the Florentines and the Pisans. The latter is a fine early impression from one of Marcantonio's most beautiful plates...
...addition to his regular work, he conducted a course of five lectures in German on "The Life and Works of Michelangelo." These lectures were given in the New Lecture Hall, and were attended by a large number of students and officers of the University. He also lectured at Wellesley and at Princeton, and gave a talk on "Modern German Art" before the Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft, of which he is an honorary member...
...LECTURES ON MICHELANGELO. V. "DerMensch und der Dichter." Professor Clemen. New Lecture Hall...