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Backbreaking Gesture. The reliquary bust of St. Sigismund (see color page) demonstrates the multiple origins of Polish art. Given by Polish King Casimir the Great to the cathedral in Plock in 1370, the gilt object commemorates the martyred king of Burgundy, killed by the Franks during the 6th century, who became so popular that three kings of Poland took the name of Sigismund. The crown, studded with tourmalines, diamonds, pearls and sapphires, was commissioned in Venice nearly 150 years before the making of the bust, which was fashioned in Germany...
...drawing with a foreshortened face. It struck a familiar note. I leafed on and found two others. The inner tension was there, the vitality, the technique." Working slowly through the book, he found another clue: an ex libris showing that the Bible had once been owned by one Hans Plock, master of embroidery at the court of the Archbishop of Halle. "With that," he says, "I was in Griinewald's territory, and I recognized the hand of the master." Other German experts agreed...
...Phenix '12 Juliet Marlowe Wells, her daughter, P. C. Squire '11 Hunting Wells, her son, E. R. Kimball '11 Mollicule Hepsipah Kennedy, M. S. Robbins '12 Artemus Poindexter Hopper, J. S. Hutchinson '13 Jed Nevins, W. H. Heywood '12 Timothy Sullivan, J. L. Hannan '12 Chief Shoota-Da-Plock, J. G. B. Perkins '11 Wachoo, F. O. Bergquist uC. Seluta, E. R. Kimball '11 Ravenhead, N. B. Dee '11 Leon Opper, N. F. Coburn '11 Mazie, a soubrette. W. H. Lacey...
SPECIAL NOTICE TO STUDENTS AND OTHERS.- The picture framing business now in Hilton's plock, Harvard street, will be carried on after April 1, at Roberts block, 13 Brattle street, Cambridge, where a continuance of the patronage of my many friends is respectfully solicited...
SPECIAL NOTICE TO STUDENTS AND OTHERS.- The picture framing business now in Hilton's plock, Harvard street, will be carried on after April 1, at Roberts block, 13 Brattle street, Cambridge, where a continuance of the patronage of my many friends is respectfully solicited...