American Aristocracy: Gods of Copley Square - Magic 1
/A startling triptych illuminates the crossroads of social, racial, and sexual identity in the Copley Square of a century ago, as "The Gods of Copley Square" continues
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/Lost to history, here re-discovered, Trinity Chancel --"a daring enterprise in its day, as original an expression and as unique as was the genius of the American people."
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/A rumor of Narnia at Trinity Church prompts two questions. Can a building have a spiritual life? Can a work of art not? Phillips Brooks and the idea of ecstasy
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/"Truth is Catholic, but the search for it is Protestant," quoth W.H. Auden, and this month Phillips Brooks is at Lourdes, of all places, his liking for which can only be explained by his experiences at Benares.
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/"Perhaps a little drunk might answer" was Phillips Brooks's idea of how to view Pre-Raphaelite art, several masterpieces of which he commissioned for Trinity Church. "Centerpiece" continues.
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/Henry Adams on the road to Chartres, Phillips Brooks on the Madonna of the prairie, and John La Farge on why he worried Trinity Church had "no heart" -- The Gods of Copley Square continues
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/Byzantium rediscovered. An American in Venice and a forgotten Madonna (which breaks the rules) in Copley Square. Behold an American Hagia Sophia
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/HH Richardson waxing, Louis Sullivan watching: America's first school of architecture at MIT. To science and technology add art and religion, and immigrants sculpting the sister of the Statue of Liberty.
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/Boston's iconic Copley Square - with its Trinity Church and its Public Library - is a present-day tourist hotspot, but those visitors hardly suspect the deep and rich history of the area. American Aristocracy continues.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Beethoven In Granite: The Boston Brahmin Aesthetic
/Intertwining through Boston history: the rich, implacable music of Beethoven and the flinty austerity of the Boston Granite style of architecture - trace the connections, as American Aristocracy continues.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Civil War: Pride and Shame on the Via Sacra
/The clash between Brahmin liberalism and the legacy of slave-trading focuses on a monument to the men who redeemed a city and ransomed a nation. "American Aristocracy" continues.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Brahmin Dreams: In Search of the Capital of The World
/Boston without Brahmins, like Vienna without Jews, frames shifting capitoline visions, visions much more in the spirit than most realize of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who actually wrote: 'It dwarfs the mind to feed it on any localism.'
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