Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exterior panels, thirty-two in all are very elaborate. They are divided by stiles and rails intersecting in carved rosettes. Eight are occupied by portrait medallions of famous architectural designers of the past, and the rest by shields with the Harvard "H." On the left hand door are the heads of Brunelleschi, Michael Angelo, Alberti and Sangallo, and on the right, Lescot, Peruzzi, Bramante and Sansovino...
...massive, cast bronze doors. They have been completed in New York from the designs of McKim, Mead and White, and are Renaissance in exterior ornamentation, but Greek on the inside. The doors will be about fourteen feet high and seven feet wide. Eight of the panels will be portrait medallions of Italian architectural designers of the Renaissance period...
...Barrett at the Court Theatre, and Mr. Forbes-Robertson was chosen in support her in the leading roles, among them. Armand Duval, Don Carlos, Leicester in "Mary Stuart," and Romeo in which "the modern English stage has not seen his equal." The year after he painted a splendid portrait of Madame Modjeska...
...committee on President Eliot's portrait has definitely decided to have an oil painting instead of a bust. Mr. John Sargent, R. A., will paint the portrait if it is possible to secure his services. The necessary funds were subscribed by the undergraduates in conjunction with the graduates resident in Boston and New York and the Harvard Clubs of Philadelphia and Chicago...
...clock, after leading a cheer for President and Mrs. Eliot, J. A. Burgess '04 spoke briefly, expressing the gratitude of the undergraduates for all that President Eliot has done for them, and conveying the request or both graduates and undergraduates to be allowed to place a the Union a portrait of the President which should always be before Harvard men as a token of esteem and appreciation of his work for the University. The necessary funds have already been raised and the portrait will be painted by an artist and at sittings to be chosen by the President...