Word: tibur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
...Circus Maximus of ancient Rome was first a vast, open field, later a tiered U-shaped structure built of wood. So many fires broke out in the stables and contestants' quarters that in the 2nd Century B. C. it was reconstructed of stone from the quarries of Tibur-a light stone that turned a rich ochre with age. In the Middle Ages the Circus was buried by silt from the hills, and sheds and hovels were built on top of it. Now Fascist Italy, recalling the bellicose glories of her antiquity, has decided to lay bare the Circus...
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