Tag: Charles Eliot Norton

  • Nation & World

    Bernard Berenson, recalled

    Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, a treasure of Italian Renaissance scholarship since 1961, has launched an oral history site on its origins with Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, and its transition from villa to a center for scholars.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Biography of a bronze

    September marked the 375th anniversary of benefactor John Harvard’s death, and the beginning of a course that uses his statue in Harvard Yard to instruct students about the realities of two vanished eras.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Artist touts ‘primacy’ of images

    The beauty of art, says William Kentridge in his Norton Lectures, is that it makes “a safe place for uncertainty.”

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sing sacred, and hide the flute

    A timeline of the arts at Harvard begins in 1636, when Harvard was founded, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had barely 10,000 settlers, and wolves howled at the edge of the endless forests.

    3 minutes