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...most important acquisitions of any of the college museums this year was the recent purchase by the Fogg Museum of 24 terra cotta statuettes in the manner of the great 17th century culptor. Bernini. Known in Italy as the Piancastelli Collection, they were first brought to this country in 1905 and are the largest group of such work outside of Rome...
...fact that much of modern sculpture can be multiplied through casting in bronze, terra cotta, and artificial stone gives it a far greater social significance than painting. It is, perhaps, for this reason that German sculpture (together with architecture) reached a peak of general excellence never attained by painting and scarcely reached even by sculptors of other countries...
Under the leadership of Dr. Hallam L. Movius '02 and Dr. Hellmut de Terra the expedition has discovered extinct fossils of the Himalayan ice age--a buffalo, a hippopotamus, and elephants...
Madame Bovary (Terra). Last spring Paris-Soir aired the rumor that Adolf Hitler's middleaged, platonic fancy had turned from red-haired 29-year-old cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl (who in three years as his favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took...
...oldest item in the exhibit is a, Sumerian head of a warrior in stone, dated about 2500 B. C. Other items in the sculpture and ceramics gallery include stone reliefs from the stairway at Persepolis of about 500 B. C.; and a green terra cotta lion of about 1500 B. C. from Nuzi, one of the earliest known examples of finely developed glaze technique...