Tag: university
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Trinity College Dublin and the Book of Kells
Find out about my dream-come-true experience of seeing the Book of Kells in person at Trinity College Dublin!
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A Review of the Yale Center for British Art
The Yale Center for British Art is an entire museum dedicated to historical British art. Learn about my experience and the Louis I. Kahn-designed building.
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A Review of the Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale University Art Gallery is home to a world-class art collection. It’s free to the public and highly recommended for art lovers of all sorts.
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A Review of the Zimmerli Art Museum
The Zimmerli Art Museum is located on Rutgers’s New Brunswick campus. The museum holds a large collection of Soviet Nonconformist art, among other things.
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Princeton University Art Museum Review (the old building)
A review of the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, NJ. Information about the collections, the experience, and what to keep in mind if you visit.
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Newport Wrap-Up
If you’ve read all my posts in this series, you’ve officially been introduced to every Newport mansion I visited. (But not every Newport mansion, since unfortunately I didn’t get to visit two of them.) But my Newport adventure wasn’t entirely mansion tours. There’s lots else to see and do in town. The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is…
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Gargoyles and Grotesques of the City College of New York
I freely admit that I haven’t been great about posting gargoyles over the past few months, but I recently found a reader grotesque that I hadn’t seen before, and it seems to have snapped me back into action. This scholarly fellow attends the City College of New York. I believe that he resides on the…
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Grotesques of William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, Chicago
I have recently become obsessed with gargoyles and grotesques who are reading. (Possibly I feel kinship to them.) While doing research on collegiate gargoyles and grotesques a few months ago, I realized how many colleges and universities have at least one sculpture of someone reading a book. Both people and animals are shown in this studious pursuit, and they are…
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Gargoyles and Grotesques: Onigawara
Relief-carved demon faces on the ends of ridge beams in traditional Japanese architecture, onigawara are fantastic examples of grotesques outside medieval Europe.
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Gargoyles and Grotesques of the University of Chicago
I’ve talked about the University of Chicago’s gargoyles before, in a post about collegiate gargoyles. However, I really had no idea at the time how prominent a role these gargoyles play in the school’s culture. Not only is the university’s IT system nicknamed “gargoyle”, but the University of Chicago gargoyle also has his own blog, and the…
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Medieval University Students’ Textbooks – Day 8
Just as they are today, university students were big consumers of books in the Middle Ages. Learn about illuminated textbooks in law, medicine, and more.
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Gargoyles Go to College
Discover the grotesques of the University of Chicago.
