Word: portale
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...have been bought by the museum, one of which is the cast of the crucifixion from the same church in Wechselburg. The piece, which is about 15 feet high, will be put at the entrance of one of the south alcoves. The other piece is a cast of the portal of the Cathedral of Augsburg in Germany, and will be built into the wall of the museum at the right of the main entrance...
...Adams to Delano (inclusive), Sever 29Derby to Yule (inclusive), Sever 35Latin B:(Assignment of rooms, Latin B).Section 4, Sever 17Section 5, Sever 18Physics C:(Assignment of rooms, Physics C).Ailen to Lurie (inclusive), Zool. Lect. RoomMcAllister to Portal (inclusive), Pierce 202Powel to R. D. Thomson (inclusive), Pierce 209S. Thomson to Ziegler (inclusive), Pierce...
...Sandys graphically described the homes of the Italian humanists--the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience in an imaginary journey through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones...
After speaking of the buttresses which supported the triporium gallery of the especially large nave, the lecturer pointed out the architectural beauty of the west portal figures, their "sechereese" and lightness. The sculpturing, he said, is the best of its kind and was possible only at this time. He showed how much better the work on Chartres was than that of Aries, where the figures are heavy and uninteresting. He then displayed pictures of figures at the top of the columns of the portals showing their Gothic difference, and their individuality...
...next spoke of the beauty of the north portal and pointed out the improvement over the primitive art of the west portal in strength, of sureness of conception and execution, and in a similar manner described the south portal and its allegery, the creation, and the history of the six days...