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...centuries it was a habit of Popes to collect modern religious art. Up to the papacy of Urban VIII, who gave Bernini carte blanche to transform the face of Rome, the Vatican had a use for the best art of its time: magnificence as propaganda. The results, strung through exhausting miles of galleries and culminating in Raphael's stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy...
...Your Grace has given a president of wisdom above all princes..." -Henry VIII...
June 30, 1973 CASH (1972 balance is primarily uninvested income cash to be remitted to Harvard) (Note 3) 196,076 INVESTMENT (at cost): General investment securities (at market quotations, $31,150,135 at June 30, 1973; $30,845,588 at June 30, 1972) (Exhibit VIII) 24,414,702 Special investment securities of endowment funds required to be separately invested (at market quotations, $1,602,860 at June 30, 1973; $1,598,443 at June 30, 1972) 1,137,281 Temporary investments: Building funds (at market quotations, $29,505 at June 30, 1973; $89,140 at June...
...WIVES OF HENRY VIII (A & M). Using everything from synthesizers to pipe organs, England's Rick Wakeman has produced a provocative rock LP (not a score from the movie or TV series of the same name...
Roman Catholicism and the Church of England took the first dramatic steps toward separation in the 1530s, when Henry VIII broke with the papacy. Last week the Anglican communion and the Church of Rome took a significant step toward reunion. A joint international commission of the two communions issued a statement of broad agreement on the function of the Christian ministry...