Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oriental art gets a lion's share of publishers' attention, with 2000 YEARS OF JAPANESE ART (Abrams; $25) and CHINESE PAINTING (Universe; $10) among the handsomest efforts. Pelican Books offers a monumental study, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY: 1600-1750, for $12.50. Collins has a NEW TESTAMENT (de luxe, $50) exquisitely illustrated with tipped-in reproductions from medieval manuscripts, and Praeger a compendium of ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES ($12.50). New York Graphic provides a large Henry Moore sketchbook of HEADS, FIGURES AND IDEAS at $30, and a handsome color survey of Pre-Hispanic Mexican painting at $18. Altogether, they...
...disciples were called Christians first in Antioch," says the New Testament (Acts 11:26); Paul and Barnabas founded the church there, and Peter is said to have been Antioch's bishop before becoming the first Bishop of Rome. Antioch (now in southernmost Turkey) was then a notable Mediterranean city of some 700,000 people, but the Moslem conquest, the Crusades and earthquakes devastated the city, and, probably in the 14th century, the patriarchs moved to Damascus...
Many a dedicated painter still freezes in a cold-water flat, still depends on the discriminating small collector who cares more about his instincts than his investments. But the flood of money into the art market is testament to the new status of art in the scale of values of U.S. culture. Even those unknown artists who do not benefit directly, or at once, can be grateful. As long as prices are posted over lunch counters, artists will go on taking an interest in the relation between the price of what they sell and the price of what they...
...opportunities Mrs. Pusey has to meet students is at breakfast after the early service at Christ Church, but even then the President always has to rush off" to learn the Old Testament lesson for the service at Memorial Church. "This fall," she continues, "a student asked us down to his House for dinner. He had quite a meal planned and wanted to cook it over the fireplace. It sounded tempting, but we just didn't have the time...
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