Word: xvi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steen, Sec. 3 Mallinckrodt MB8Mr. Ballon, Sec. 4 Mallinckrodt MB8Mr. Curtiss, Sec. 5 Mallinckrodt MB8Mathematics 4 Sever 35Mineralogy 2 Geol. Mus. 13Music 6 Music Bldg.Philosophy 8 Emerson 211Physics 30 Sever 5Semitic 5a Andover CSemitic 14 Sever 6Sociology 12 Emerson AZoology 5 Sever 202 P.M.Philosophy A Memorial HallTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 (XVI)Economics 7b Sever 5Economics 43 Sever 1Engin. Sciences 8b Robinson AnnexFine Arts 8a Fogg Small Rm.Government 8 Sever 36Government 23 Sever 17History 66 Sever 17Latin 3 hf. Sever 13Latin 7 hf. Sever 17Physiology 4 Sever 1Sociology 16 Sever 12 P.M. (XVIII)Engin. Sciences 1a Pierce 302French 22 hf. Sever 1Music...
...mile of State Street real estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with a splendid collection of French paintings. The murals were by Gabriel Ferrier. But what most impressed a Chicago still living close to the stockyards was a private elevator...
...disent Ies grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...
Rothschild Foundation. All these things tended to show that the Louvre portrait is not the original Leonardo, as Louvre authorities have long admitted. What Harry Hahn was looking for was some document indicating that his portrait had once belonged to the royal collection of Louis XVI. He found that this winter in the great art library of the Salomon Rothschild Foundation in Paris: a memoir written by an official Louvre expert in 1847 showing that La Belle Ferronnière, which had been one of the King's pictures at Versailles, was sold by Revolutionary Architect General Auguste...
...18th Century only two French experts, Jean Louis Hacquin and one Picault (both employed by Louis XVI), knew the secret of transferring a valuable painting from a rotted canvas or badly warped panel to a new backing, a very delicate operation in which all the original paint is left intact...