Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University has received from Mr. James Loeb, A.B. '88, a gift of forty-eight plaster casts from ancient marbles, bronzes, and terra cottas, made from the collection of the late Professor Furtwangler. These casts form a good working collection, and will be useful in connection with instruction in Fine Arts...
Several changes have been made in Sever Hall. Room 35 has been divided into two lecture halls by a thick wood and plaster wall. The stairways where they were badly worn have been repaired...
...plaster cast of the pulpit in the Church of Wechselburg, Saxony, presented to the Germanic Museum by Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, has just been put in place in the museum. The cast is a massive structure about twelve feet in height and made in the Romanesque style of the early eighteenth century architecture. Being placed in the right wing of the museum the light from the skylight on this piece is excellent...
...statue is a plaster model of a colossal figure exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. Kronos is represented with out-stretched wings, symbolic of the apparently swift flight of time, but standing on the back of a turtle, as significant of its slow progress. The face is covered with a veil, emblematic of mystery...
...collection in Robinson Hall there has been added a plaster cast purchased at Rome, of one half of the Arch of Trajan at Beneventium.--Courtesy of the Boston Globe...