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...detail of Byzantine art can sometimes seem rudimentary, it's not because the empire was uncultivated or primitive. For many years considered by Western intellectuals to be pompous and decadent - Voltaire called it a "worthless repertory of declamations and miracles" - the Byzantine Empire is now seen by historians as a crucial bridge connecting antiquity to the Renaissance, as the keeper of the sacred flame of classical learning through the so-called Dark Ages. It was also a melting pot of influences. Byzantines, who were devout Christians, considered themselves the inheritors of the Roman Empire, despite the fact that they spoke...
...Robin Cormack, one of the exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...
While each of the three sections has its own distinctive tone, Komunyakaa’s voice is discernible behind them all. He is the warhorse, the man who has ridden into battle and can’t quite seem to return home even all these years later. He knows he’ll never be able to explain the entirety of his experience, so he doesn’t even try. Instead, he limits his focus to one moment, one person, one tool of war. In the process, he manages to say something greater. By looking at individual causes...
...would be firstname.lastname.10@college.harvard.edu. This arrangement, however, neglects the fact that students often take time off, and in doing so might change their graduation year. A preferable format would be to not include class years, but assign every student an address that includes their full name. Although these addresses may seem unduly long, it is rare that students ever must type out a full address to send an e-mail, as drop down menus allow users to select the appropriate address after entering only the first few letters in the string. This new and improved format will drastically decrease the incidence...
...wrong. I love the occasional tweed jacket and corduroy pant, and bowties tickle my fancy. But suspenders and pocket squares, horn-rimmed glasses and woven belts—surely classifiable as the “sundry haberdashery” that a 1926 article refers to—seem a bit too dapper and impractical for everyday wear. That is not to say that Harvard students are all about form over function; Barbour jackets offer quail pockets that are useful for storing the dead pheasant one may find on his way to class, and they make for handy and spacious pencil...