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...ourage. It seemed impossible that a useless block of marble could become a masterpiece that thousands of visitors from every age and every part of t... ...k of art and you will enjoy working night and day, like artists do, on the masterpiece of your life. You will know how to accept all the anguish and... ... especially in the realm of relationships. Their works might be immortal masterpieces but their lives are disasters. It may seem paradoxical that... ...es with artistic techniques. If art is dead because it no longer produces masterpieces, we want to make use of art and make it live for us so we ca... ...ssionate not about the beauty that has already been created by others (the museums are already full of it), but about the beauty that only he or she... ...erson must create their own butterfly, just as an artist creates their own masterpiece. Dante had already said this, and he had already modified the... ...the contrary, it is constantly, incessantly active. From wherever it is, a museum, a home, a town square, it continuously sends out energy that infl...

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...ned possible. I tried to keep a normal life, going to cafes, galleries and museums; always, I imagined Erik there with me. Zareh and Antoinette vis... ... Quarter. Visiting the Louvre was my favorite pastime; I loved viewing the masterpieces of sculpture and painting that were kept there. I could tak... ... him handsomely to do it. So, it is he who goes with you to the cafes, 78 museums, gardens and market. It is he with whom you discuss books and en... ...ome days, Gilbert would persuade me to go on an outing with him; the British Museum was a particular favorite. On those occasions, I could forget my... ...y when I felt up to activity, it snowed in London. I had planned to visit a museum, but Gilbert had a different idea. “There is a frozen pond at the... ...iding one of the horses. Sometimes Erik insisted that Gilbert take me to a museum so that I would get out of the house for a while and he could wor...

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...titutes art and the dubious expertise of art "professionals". There is no other masterpiece so studied, analyzed and scrutinized as Leonardo da ... ...famous tableaux, Le Bateau (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, jo... ...bus and taxi terminals. The Pentagon has its own metro (subway) station. This masterpiece of engineering was designed by George Edwin Bergstro... ...Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" debunking many of the myths attending to this masterpiece. Michelangelo (1475-1564) collaborated with assis... ...ccer War merely epitomized this deep-set rivalry. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8350/war.html http://ldbelveal.net/futbol_war.htm Spam... ...prang to fame in less than 10 years. The good doctor owned and operated a small wax museum in Paris and, when he died in 1794, Marie - who was his t...

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...ce is one of the symbols of this town; near the front door, there’s a copy of the David by Michelangelo. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the most famous museums in the world: art masterpieces from 13th to 18th century reside here...

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...st Historical Book when it was published in Australia in 1984. It also formed the basis for an exhibition, 'First Impressions', staged by the British Museum (Natural History) in celebration of the 1988 Australian Bicentenary. The book includes fascinating reading on the development of Australian natural history and over 100 color/black and white illustrations, many of whic...

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...al health Metric system Military recruiting Minimum wage Motorcycle helmet use Museums Nature conservation New york city Nuclear energy Nudis... ...ered by such institutions as libraries, post offices, YMCAs, chambers of commerce, museums, the Red Cross and so on. Offerings of nonprofit health c... ...on promoting education for Hispanics is called Aspira, Spanish for "aspire," and a museum in San Francisco calls itself The Exploratorium. Criticiz... ... mass transit for visiting several points of interest, centers of performing arts, museums and so on -the possibilities are endless. Energy conserv... ... that separate ideas, goods and services. Ricklef (in Gaedeke 1977) describes how museums run gift shops and conduct festivals celebrating the cult... ...gaging in social marketing by sponsoring societal causes and programs (for example Masterpiece Theatre by Mobil). It is of little use to debate whet...

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...tween observer and object). * Abraham Moses proclaims the closing of the museums and the transformation of the artists in programmers of our phanta... ... then immediately we’ll be induced to state its entrance from life to the museum. We consider then premature the foreword of the poetical collectio... ...ior assaults. What guarantees its impenitence... On the other side, Non-masterpiece declares the denying of conventions as the only conviction of ...

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...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ...tting on a bench facing his work. We agreed that it equaled any classical masterpiece. It was a little difficult to accept such beauty coming from s... ...orty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Ins... ... Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many oth...

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...gelo, that these "were fit to be the Gates of Paradise." While Ghiberti's masterpieces depicted the scenes from the Old Testament, these bronze door... ...his is done by e-mail and in our newspapers. We also keep them informed of museum exhibits, theater performances, athletic events, youth athletic lea...

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...- crated by Augustus iu 9 B. Cm the original of which is in the Na- tional museum in Rome. This copy has been hung oil the wall at the foot of the sta... ...er Polytech- nic Institute; president and direc- tor cif the Worcester Art Museum ; director of the Worcester Memori- al Hospital, Atlanta University,... ...kind. Sir. Chap- man is associate curator in ornitlV ology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York city, and since 1897 has been president... ...y etched in browns or grays; but the few Ggiire-pieoes which are shown are masterpieces of their kind. In the corridor and in room 12 Hopkins Hall hav... ...he would say they are built on a strictly logical plan, like the Deacon's "Masterpiece, th^ Wonder- ful OneHoss Shay." And he ap- pears to think that ...

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...use, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, Masonic Temple, [Solomon's tem... ...f "master" should be hyphenated : master-builder, master-stroke (exception: masterpiece). I 79. Compounds of " god " : sun-god, rain-god. 180. "Ha...

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...f by spending time with girlfriends, learning to line dance, taking a class, visiting a museum or art gallery, attending a movie, concert or play –... ...ediately 'adopt' it. Narcissistic Supply can be both negative or positive. To write the masterpiece of all time is the exact emotional equivalent of...

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... anticipation ignited in Morgan. It might be interesting to turn Camilla’s masterpiece into mayhem. “And my father?” “He’ll be well occupied acr... ... been pullin’ in such huge audiences for Barnum’s Minstrels at the American Museum, Christy never would have hired me to compete with him. Needless ... ...own beside her and helped her cradle their daughter between them. “She’s a masterpiece.” Morgan smiled into her baby’s face. Together, they insp...

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...the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with h...

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... divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This com- modious ottoman has since been removed, to ... ...proachable toilets who devote themselves, in France, to the propagation of masterpieces, and if the truth must be told, he had often admired the copy ... ...inal?” Mademoiselle Noemie glanced at the glowing splendor of the Venetian masterpiece and gave a little toss of her head. “I don’t like that woman. S... ...the progress of the young lady herself. He went one afternoon to the great museum, and wandered through several of the rooms in fruitless quest of her... ...very now and then, having learned from Newman that he had been through the museums of Europe, he uttered some pol- ished aphorism upon the flesh-tints... ...a little white flower. “Don’t ask me to leave this. I am in the midst of a masterpiece. My flower is going to smell very sweet; I am putting in the sm...

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...ected paintings, the public could still choose: a crown was awarded to the masterpiece by hands unseen. Eager, impassioned discussions arose about som... ...ts of inflexible proportions, where each distinct specialty could show its masterpieces only. An experience of ten years has shown the excellence of t... ...der, and the bourgeois shuddered. Fougeres had simply been inspired by the masterpiece of Gerard Douw; he had turned the group of the “Dropsical Woman... ...u, where I am doing a dining- room, and Leon de Lora the tops of the doors—masterpieces! Come and see us.” And off he went without taking leave, havin... ...ess of saying to 23 Balzac them:— “The King has given me an order for the Museum of Versailles.” Madame de Fougeres adores her husband, to whom she h...

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...f Balzac at Tours; there is only, in one of the chambers of the melancholy museum, a rather clever, coarse bust. The description in “La Grenadiere,” o... ...me to go to the Musee; the more so that I have a weakness for pro- vincial museums,—a sentiment that depends but little on the quality of the collecti... ...cap, who pulls aside a faded curtain to show you the lustreless gem of the museum,—these things have a mild historical qual- ity, and the sallow canva... ...d the sallow canvases after all illustrate something. Many of those in the museum of Nantes illustrate the taste of a successful warrior; having been ... ...emporary French school, culled from the annual Salons and presented to the museum by the State. Wherever the traveller goes, in France, he is re- mind... ...ansferred to the cathedral from a demol- ished convent, this monument, the masterpiece of Michel Colomb, author of the charming tomb of the children o... ... and eas- ily the first among those of Toulouse. This great struc- ture, a masterpiece of twelfth-century romanesque, and dedicated to Saint Saturninu... ...nity, but with equal good faith; and the story of his exploits is a little masterpiece of the light comical. The Tarasconnais, however, declined to ta...

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...in the United States. In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me t... ...ch they had pierced through and through, as a gimlet pierces a barrel. The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one of these defensive... ... follows: 12 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea To M. Aronnax, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Sir,—If you will consent to ... ...nd I will not bring back less than half a yard of his ivory halberd to the Museum of Natural His- tory.” But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal... ...six months ago.” “In your little room, sir,” replied Conseil, “and in your museum, sir; and I should have already classed all your fossils, sir. And t... ... time all idea of seizing the Nautilus or escaping from it. This ship is a masterpiece of modern industry, and I should be sorry not to have seen it. ... ...nal exile, who was leaving never to return. These wonders of Nature, these masterpieces of art, amongst which for so many days my life had been con- ...

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...plation. There was a fine assur- ance about it which seemed a guarantee of masterpieces; but when at last he went in and, just to help himself on his ... ...to look at them before answering that question.” “I’ve been to the British museum—there are many of his letters there. I’ve obtained permission to see... ...a work of the most disinterested art. But the author of that incorruptible masterpiece had put his fin- ger on the place in saying to his interlocutor... ... and indeed had spent so many hours in it of late, following him up at the museum and comparing his different portraits, engravings and litho- graphs,...

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...mes of wood, so clumsily wrought that they might have found a place in the Museum of Arts and Crafts to illustrate the early efforts of French carpent... ...mall easel picture and a portrait. After a long and eager study of the two masterpieces, Girodet threw himself on his comrade’s neck and hugged him, w... ...nthusias- tic sentiments by which, indeed, under various conditions, every masterpiece is engendered. The artist only bent his head in reply. “How hap...

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...romance; their very drawings were of figures whose anatomy would have been masterpieces of the impossible to Cuvier, designed to feminize the Farnese ... ...d with their mother and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the coun... ... was forbid- den by the censor. This second piece was considered by many a masterpiece, and won him more real reputation than all his productive littl... ...e of his life with the flowers of ideal passion; his letters to Marie were masterpieces of grace and style. Nathan made her the light of his life; he ...