Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1863-1957 (inclusive), 1863-1933 (bulk).

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Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1863-1957 (inclusive), 1863-1933 (bulk).

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Includes personal and family correspondence; lecture outlines and notes for courses at Harvard and in France and Ireland; student papers; biographical material; letters concerning the death of Porter; photographs; blueprints and printed descriptions of Elmwood residence; and diaries and correspondence, 1918-1957, of his wife, Lucy Wallace Porter. Family papers include correspondence, 1880-1933, of Porters, including Joanna Krom, Lucy Wallace Porter and Louis Porter, and letters and papers relating to the Porter estate in Donegal, Ireland. Also includes correspondence with William H. Goodyear, Art Studies journal, AE (George Russell), and Bernard Berenson. Correspondence of Walter M. Whitehill and Berenson, 1949-1956, relates to the publication of Berenson's letters to Porter. Also contains manuscripts, lecture outlines and notes for courses on medieval and Byzantine art and sculpture, architectural drawings; biographical material including diplomas, certificates, and papers relating to Porter's Harvard appointment. Also includes photographs of the Porter family; from a world tour takenby Porter while at student at Yale; and a student room at Yale. Also includes manuscripts of Porter's literary works: Pope Joan, Columcille Goes, Conchobar's House, and Mephistopheleia. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

19.5 linear feet of mss. and 1 flat box of drawings.

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts

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Porter, Louise, 1958-....

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Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978

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Porter, Lucy Wallace.

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Goodyear, William H.

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Krom, Joanna.

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Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933

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Arthur Kingsley Porter was an art historian and scholar of Romanesque architecture who taught at Harvard University. From the description of Study collection of Romanesque architecture and sculpture, with emphasis on France and Italy. 19--. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84440691 Porter taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1863-1957 (inclusive), 1863-1933 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat rec...

Yale University.

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Porter family.

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