Word: persian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross Hospital at Neuilly, France, where he had been serving as a Red Cross executive. Throughout his life he had devoted himself to the cause of art, being particularly distinguished for his Oriental collections. Just previous to the war he was for a while Curator of Persian and Mohammedan Art at the Boston Art Museum...
...will be eight lectures on Armenia by Frederick Cornwallis Conybearse, M. A., Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. 1. Physiography and Climate of America as Determining Factors of History. 2. Assyrian Epoch, Vannic Civilization. 3. The Khaldis Moses of Kleoren's Traditions. 4. Advent of Armenians and the Persian Conquest. 5. Iranic Influence on Language, Religion, and Institutions of Armenia. 6. Greek Influence. Christianity. 7. Armenia as an Appanage of Parthia. Sassanid Epoch and Mohammedan Conquest. 8. Armenian Diaspora in Cilicia, Persia, Poland. Political Outlook of Today...
...advanced on Bagdad was the absolute lack of an effective system of rail communication. It was this condition which prevented the relief of Kut during the winter of 1916, the river transportation proving inadequate. Under the direction of the new commander a complete railroad system was built from the Persian Gulf to Amara, and in addition the British Army was reorganized on a basis superior to that of any other overseas force...
...other gifts were as follows: One Persian miniature; one late Byzantine miniature; one sixteenth-century Italian brocade; reproductions of Japanese works of art; two Japanese prints; wood block engraved by Timothy Cole; Japanese book; 37 engravings and etchings; 228 books; 196 photographs; 2485 slides; $75 prizes for drawing and painting; $2000 annual Research Fellowship in Fine Arts. The most important exhibitions were those of early Italian engravings. Spanish paintings, lithographs, English water colors, and drawings by Old Masters...
...ground floor, the smaller side room is now devoted to a collection of textiles, loaned by Dr. Denman W. Ross '75; and the other side room to Oriental art, including a superb series of 16th and 17th century Persian miniatures...