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...Unfortunately, the museum couldn't have it all. Les Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame (circa 1410-12) is at Paris' Bibliothèque National and is too fragile to travel, and the brothers' most famous work, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (circa 1411-16), is at the Musèe Condè in Chantilly, near Paris; the museum is bound by contract not to lend it out. But the Valkhof show makes up for these missing pieces in a creative way: it features an animation of two scenes, February and April, from...
...from 1400 to 1416 - the year all three died, presumably from the plague. It also places the works in the context of contemporary art, which demonstrates a conscientious interest in small details and animal anatomy, quite new at the time. Unfortunately, the museum couldn't have it all. Les Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame (circa 1410-12) is at Paris' Bibliothèque National and is too fragile to travel, and the brothers' most famous work, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (circa 1411-16), is at the Musée Cond...
...years before the U.S. entered World War I, the hawkish Archie already had begun conducting military drills in Harvard Yard—much to the chagrin of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who hoped that the country could stay out of the conflict. TR feared that his son might be expelled, but “Lowell, besieged by alumni with a Rooseveltian view of preparedness, backed down...
...TR himself nearly became a casualty on the expedition. Four weeks into the journey, he injured his left leg and lapsed into a high-fevered delirium. During his illness, Roosevelt, in a strange choice of literature, kept reciting the opening line of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.” When the team returned safely to civilization, they realized that they had discovered a 1,500-kilometer river that was later named “Teodoro...
...last decade, however, is engrossing enough. Still relatively young, Roosevelt had the luxury to satisfy his lust for adventure and attention, and he did not disappoint. Now, with Bill Clinton, America has for the first time since TR a former president who left the White House before age 55. One can only wonder whether Clinton’s post-presidency will produce such fascinating fodder for future biographers...