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...centuries so that he could be rediscovered." The most impressive gathering ever of his work, "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts," runs from March 31 through July 22. Appropriately, it is taking place in the far eastern corner of Tuscany, at Arezzo's State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art and in the surrounding area, which offers a chance to see works on loan alongside some of his best-known frescoes on permanent display in his home region...
...fact a midsize cultural gem that sometimes gets lost in the shadow of Florence to the north and Siena to the west. It was the hometown of the Roberto Benigni character in the Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful, while Guido d'Arezzo, credited with inventing modern musical notation, was born here in the year 991. Also, the Basilica of San Domenico features an important painted crucifix by 13th century artist Cimabue...
...Duke, Federico III, one of the Renaissance's most accomplished condottieri, or mercenary barons. Painting with brilliant color and unfiltered realism, Piero doesn't blink at the prominence of Federico's nose and chin, but he never crosses into caricature. His approach gives Piero's portraiture a strikingly modern aspect. "It is almost hyper-realism," Bertelli says. "The faces are gigantic compared to the background landscape, making them monumental." The same attention to character is evident in his frescoes. La Madonna del Parto (The Pregnant Madonna) in Monterchi and La Maddelena (Mary Magdalene) in Arezzo's cathedral feature a similar...
Graduate students began collecting signatures yesterday for a letter protesting the University’s decision to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, a leading scholar of pre-modern Japanese history. The petition, which included the names of roughly 50 undergraduate and graduate students as of last night, calls into question Mass. Hall’s commitment to pre-modern Japanese studies. The letter seeks “not only to laud the professor’s qualities as a teacher and mentor, but to make a case for the field of Japanese pre-modern...
...rallying academics behind free speech and the independence of universities, leading the circle of critics who saved America from paranoid implosion. It is no coincidence, then, that he is remembered as one of the strongest and most effective Harvard presidents of this century: “the transformer of modern Harvard” in the words of Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes...