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Article: Harvard eases the return to the Renaissance
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 25, 1996
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CAMBRIDGE -- Warburg Hall looks something like a Christmas card
these days, filled with Nativities, Adorations of the Magi and other
religious subjects, both seasonal and not, all from the Renaissance,
when Christian iconography dominated art.
Warburg is the stateliest exhibition space in Harvard University's
Fogg Art Museum. But for the past few years it has been closed to
the public, to accommodate the various renovation and expansion
projects that are part of the grand plan for the Fogg that Harvard
University Art Museums director James Cuno is implementing bit by
bit.
First, while the Busch-Reisinger Museum's Otto Werner Hall was
being grafted onto the Fogg, Warburg housed some of the ...