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Less known about his career, though, is that six years later he shifted his focus from the profane to the sacred, undertaking a massive mural cycle for the Boston Public Library. Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion” is now being restored for the first time in a half-century by the Harvard University Art Museums’ Straus Center for Conservation...
...Sargent’s murals stand out—not only from the frescos of da Vinci and Michaelangelo, but also from more modern works. Unlike his predecessors in the mural tradition, Sargent used a wide range of available media, including gilded statuary and a plethora of other relief materials. Consequently, the Straus Center has had to allocate four or five conservators with differing specialties to the project...
...death in 1925. It has since been argued that World War I shattered the faith in progress at the heart of his idea, and that the synagogue scandal destroyed his interest in the project. In 1890, Sargent had shunted aside his portraiture in order to relocate himself in the mural tradition, which was seen at the time as more dignified...
Even the downstairs bathroom, appropriately labeled with a poster advising “Dump the Fund,” contains a vivid painting of the house in shades of blue, green, red and purple. The painting is part of a mural that Nathaniel J. Tan ’03-’04 calls “kind of perpetually unfinished...
Some projects, like the Dr. Seuss mural in the kitchen, were probably a planned group effort. Others—like the cheddar-cheese labels in the shape of a flower that stick to the fridge or the lumpy root displayed on the mantle—seem to have been done purely on the spur of the moment...