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April 21. The Construction of the Parthenon. Professor H. L. Warren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lectures on Literature. | 3/21/1896 | See Source »

...elaborately carved. They usually contain the names of the person to whom the monument is erected, his father, and those who set up the tablet. As the stones become more elaborate we find figures carved in relief. Some of these suggest, though roughly, figures in the frieze of the Parthenon. In the Attic monuments we find the hoplite, the sailor perched on the prow of his vessel, the child at his mother's knee, and other equally lifelike pictures. Most common are the scenes of parting, where two persons are saying goodbye. One of the most interesting represents a hunter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR WHEELER'S LECTURE | 11/15/1895 | See Source »

...subject is the east end of the Parthenon including three columns on the front and three on the side; it is to be one tenth of the original size, and the first specimen of its kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Cast for Fogg Museum. | 10/10/1895 | See Source »

...upper floor, in the main corridor, a series of photographic reproductions from drawings by Italian and German masters of the Renaissance, together with some solar enlargements from Photographs of the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, and other Greek monuments, are permanently placed. The main galleries on this floor will, for the present be used for the display of photographs illustrating the arts of various schools. Those now on the walls of the larger gallery illustrate the works of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, while in the smaller gallery a selection from the designs of the earlier Italian masters will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG ART MUSEUM. | 10/2/1895 | See Source »

Professor Norton requests all members of Fine Arts 3 to go in to the Boston Museum of Art and look at the Parthenon sculptures so as to be able to pass an examination on them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1891 | See Source »

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