Word: fecit
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...Deus suam scientiam ibi habitare fecit, et id Harvard appellavit. For those of you who are not yet Hahvahd students, allow us to provide a translation of a Truth which each Harvard student knows: “And the Lord caused his knowledge to dwell there, and he called it ‘Harvard.’” Our institution, set upon the beautiful banks of the mighty Charles River, has been a beacon of light, knowledge, and truth for hundreds of years. The oldest, and perhaps the only, true university in America welcomes you, prefrosh. We welcome...
...sopranos in their Sit nomen Domini and the florid Illu enim ascenderunt showed a sensitivity to each other as units of the ensemble; they were not soloists competing against one another. The two basses sang with great variety, from the delicate Quis sicut Dominus to the big Quia fecit from the Magnificat...
...sightseers who have entered the Cathedral of St.-Lazare in Autun, on a hill 150 miles southeast of Paris, probably only a handful have seen or pondered long over the words carved at the foot of a primitive Christ above one of the doors. The words are "Gislebertus Hoc Fecit," and thanks to this signature, the glories of medieval European art do not, as in almost all instances, have to be written off as the work of devoted but anonymous artisans...
...Fortune Teller belonged to a noble family of Lorraine that did not suspect the value of its treasure. Fourteen years ago a learned Benedictine monk "discovered'' the painting, noticed that it bore in the upper right-hand corner the bold and flourishing signature: "G. de La Tour Fecit Luneuilla Lother" (Luneville, Lorraine). The monk sent word to Paris, and the Louvre quickly offered to buy it. But the Louvre's bid was topped by Art Dealer Georges Wildenstein, who had somehow managed to get wind of the deal. Wildenstein whisked the painting out of sight...
...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...