Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ralph Adams Cram, architect for the new cathedral of "St. John the Divine", in New York, will speak at the Fogg Art Museum, at 4:30 o'clock Friday on "The New York Cathedral...
...next fall, M. R. James, a well-known English mediaevalist, Dr. A. Warburg, of the University of Hamburg, Paul Pelliot, a French Orientalist. Roger Fry, British author and authority on modern painting, Bernnard Berenson, an eminent authority in the field of Italian painting and Arthur Waley of the British Museum...
...picture about 1525, since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities and the man for whose sake it was created have long ago filtered into the earth. For centuries, it was believed lost. An art dealer, A. S. Drey, discovered it, sold it to the Metropolitan Museum for a sum not definitely known but rumored to range anywhere from $150,000 to $1,000,000. Funds were forthcoming from the endowment granted by the late Frank A. Munsey...
...seen hanging in the position of honor at the museum in Manhattan-a gorgeous portrait of a medieval prince, at once beautiful and cruel. The head is perfection. A furry outer jacket partially conceals the crimson tunic with gold sleeves. Jewels gleam against the darker shades, simplicity sits elegantly upon the brighter colors. The complete history of the canvas is not known. What happened to it during the centuries of its "loss"? Until that is explained, scientists cannot be certain that this is a genuine Titian. What difference does it make? asked artists. It is itself rapturously beautiful. Romancers...
Thirty-three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Arthur Fiedler, Conductor, will give a concert in the Museum of Fine Arts, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The entire museum will be open from 7 until 11 o'clock, and no admission will be charged...