Word: artists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thomas Bruce was appointed British minister to Constantinople. The architect whom be had with him, urged him to have casts and drawings made of the remaining sculptures of the Parthenon. Failing to interest Pitt, the prime minister at this time, in his plan, Lord Elgin turned to English artists, but the demands of these were so far beyond his means that he abandoned his project for the time. On his way to Constantinople he stopped at Palermo where he succeeded in obtaining the services of an Italian artist with five assistants. With these he proceeded to Athens...
...most that Lord Elgin was allowed to do thus far was to make drawings of these works of art and this was permitted only on the receipt of five guineas from each artist daily. In 1801 Abercrombie defeated the French and the fate of the Parthenon no longer rested on the result of the campaign in Egypt. At this time, De Hunt, chaplain of the British embassy to Constantinople, conceived the idea of moving the marbles themselves to London and finally in 1801, after some reluctance, gained permission from the governor...
...McCulloch, Jr., contributes a only other prose article. "A Pupil of Giotte" describes the single masterpiece of an Italian painter, and tells how the artist was so fearful of overshadowing his master's fame that he renounced his profession for the convent...
...artist for Harper's Weekly took photographs of the Yale crew on Monday for an article on the Harvard and Yale crews which is soon to appear...
...class of 1879 is having made a high-relief bronze of Dr. McCosh at a cost of $13,009. It is the design of Augusta St. Guadens, and the artist says that it is one of the best things he has ever done. It will probably be placed in the Marquand Chapel...