Handbook of the Museum of Fine Arts, BostonMuseum of Fine Arts, 1910 - 347 pages |
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Page 203 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death : O death, where are thy plagues ? O grave, where is thy destruction?
Page 203 - AMEN. [Credo in Deum patrem omnipotentem, creatorem coeli et terrae ; et in Jesum Christum filium ejus unicum Dominum nostrum ; qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad coelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos.
Page 109 - A guide to the Catharine Page Perkins Collection of Greek and Roman Coins has been published by the Museum and may be consulted in the Library. A Catalogue of the Greenwell- Warren Collection, purchased from the Pierce Fund in 1904, has also been published: Regling, Die griechischen Milnzen der Sammlung \Varren, Berlin, 1906.
Page 149 - I have at the request of friends, sat so much and so often to painters and statuaries, that I am perfectly sick of it.
Page 203 - I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary...
Page 250 - March that I begin to realize its preeminent place among the Oriental collections in the world. I do not now hesitate to say that in point of size it is unique, and that in quality it can only be inferior to the Imperial Museums of Nara and Kioto; while for the schools of Tokugawa painting it is unrivalled anywhere. In face of these facts I wonder that the collection has not hitherto received more general attention, or become the object of the serious consideration that it warrants. Among the earliest...
Page 180 - Le Chant d' Amour (water-color) Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898 "Helas! Je sais un chant d'amour, Triste ou gai, tour a tour." On a terrace overlooking a meadow before a mediaeval town a knight sits gazing at a lady who is singing. With one hand she holds open a book and with the other plays on an organ. At the bellows of the organ sits a winged figure, blindfolded, clothed in red, whose head is wreathed with roses. The subject, steeped in romance and poetic...
Page 332 - ... be agreed upon, — with the sole view to their greatest public usefulness. 2d. To form in this way the nucleus of what may hereafter become, through the liberality of enlightened friends of Art, a representative Museum of the Fine Arts, in all their branches and in all their technical applications. 3d. To provide opportunities and means for giving instruction in Drawing, Painting, Modelling, and Designing, with their industrial applications, through lectures, practical schools, and a special...
Page 36 - from a successful warrior into a good-natured, but lazy, patron of politicians, of priests, and of pedants." — 6. This verse is treated as a gloss by some of the later critics, but that is because they have misunderstood the context. If the interpretation above given to vv. 4 f be adopted, it will not be necessary to resort to excision. The prophet has been directed to play the part of a shepherd who, though...
Page 23 - The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nefer-Ka-Ra, Son of the Sun Pef-duBast-Mes-Bast, Beloved of Hershef, who is king of Both Plains, the Giver of True Princedom, giving Life eternally...