Word: ancient
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Welch joined the Islamic Art and Later Indian Art department at the Fogg after receiving his master's in ancient art from Harvard. He was appointed curator of the department in 1976 and served until his retirement...
...Akhenaten's 3,400-year-old world has been brilliantly recalled in an exhibit titled "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen," which opens this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Part of the city's eight-month tribute to ancient Egypt (operas, ballet and an IMAX film), it is a unique assemblage of more than 250 objects from Egypt's 18th dynasty, some of which have languished unseen in storerooms and private collections for decades. They range from larger-than-life statues of Akhenaten to exquisitely sculpted reliefs and dazzling jewelry to such poignant reminders of everyday...
During that era, Schwartz also looked at the impact of Western ideas on Chinese thinking and wrote an examination of ancient Chinese thought...
Schwartz was best known among his colleagues for the breadth of his knowledge, from ancient to modern Chinese history and from Western to Chinese thinkers...
...once editor-in-chief of Time Inc.--responded to the challenge with brisk attentiveness as much as apprehension. He read up on eye incisions that would make weaker men flinch, learned that James Thurber, after becoming blind, composed whole pages of prose in his head, and discovered that in ancient Egypt, medication for such problems might consist of urine, saliva, honey, the whites of eggs and "the milk of a woman who had borne only boys." Yet all the knowledge in the world could not erase the fact that the words and the paintings that had always been his lifeline...