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...research team from the Institute for Conservation Archeology of the Peabody Museum will probably conclude excavation at the site of a seventeenth-century Harvard dormitory by removing four or five narrow columns of earth from an abandoned well next to the building, Michael E. Roberts, director of the institute, said yesterday...
Some moments in art history used to seem beyond resuscitation. Seventeenth century Venetian painting was one of them. Nobody bothered about it. It was an orphan, huddled between the father figures of the Venetian cinquecento-Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto-and the effervescent grandeur of the Tiepolos in the 18th century. Even today, when scholarship and the art market have opened every mass grave in search of something to write about and sell, the names of painters like Damiano Mazza or Alessandro Turchi do not make the pulse race...
...Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Halian Organ works--Luigi Tagliavini, Appleton chapel...
...Seventeenth century artists depicted sober, stiff youngsters, dour in face, erect in posture, adult in demeanor. Life for a child in Puritan New England, after all, was a sobering proposition: one-half of all youngsters died before the age of ten, and those who survived were continually reminded that they had been born in sin and were doomed to hell if they did not submit to the commandments of parent and preacher. To adults, play was a manifestation of a depraved nature, and they tried to coerce their children into becoming models of rectitude. One dictum for raising properly passive...
LAST SATURDAY EVENING the Bach Society Orchestra warmed up for its spring tour by presenting an admirably chosen series of four works, one from each century since the seventeenth, all of which were well suited to the group's small size and intimate style. The string section opened the concert alone with a Chacony, written by Henry Purcell, which exemplified the highly ornamental and formally structured character of the early English baroque. Christopher Wilkins directed the performance with precise care, drawing from the orchestra a highly refined control over dynamics which contributed to the carefully maintained balance among the various...