Word: monke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa and her husband, in a story told by a young monk (Mr. Taucher), who impersonates also Mona Lisa's youthful lover, whom she had been forced to discard to marry Francesco di Gioconda...
...Pindar with marginal notes by John Milton are on exhibit, as is a ponderous copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle with woodcuts by Michael Wolgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Among the manuscripts, which are mostly Greek, Latin, and Hebrew texts copied in the middle ages, is one done by the monk Erasmus, with marginal pen and ink drawings by Holbein...
...Spanish work is represented by two Commentaries on the Apocalypse by the monk Beatus. After the Gospels and Psalms the Apocalypse was a popular book for illumination. "The first, appearance of a regular series of Apocalypse pictures is in the Illuminated copies of a Commentary on the Apocalypse, composed by the Spanish monk Beatus, towards the end of the eighth century. These range in date from the ninth century to the thirteenth, and are all, or nearly all, of Spanish origin. With this exception, Spain occupies quite a secondary position in the history of illumination generally. The Morgan manuscripts date...
...Pound Hammer-Throw.--Won by G. G. Monk '21 (10 feet), 129 feet 4 inches; second, H. R. Bright '24 (50 feet), 125 feet 2 inches; third, J. F. Brown '22 (scratch), 124 feet 8 inches...
Faculty Membership Committee Chairman, C. W. Eliot 2d 1G.; M. P. Davis '21, H. J. Monk...