Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...collection of paintings of the Fogg Art Museum is a "Study of a Head" by Correggio. The painting, representing the head of a young boy, is the gift of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, and is supposed to be a study for the head of Sant 'Uario, patron saint of the city of Parma, one of the figures in the fresco of the dome of Parma Cathedral. Only a few changes have been made in the finished painting...
This cave had been closely blocked during the course of the ages, and when we entered we heard reverberating in it the echoes of strange Inca sounds that were the names of the dishes served there. It is a reasonable assumption that the custom was for each patron to shout aloud the name of his desired dish, and it would be hurled deftly out at him from an auxiliary cave in the rear. One peculiarity common to many of these food-shops was their small size; so small were most of them that there could scarcely have been room...