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  U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > J. Mark Trice, Secretary of the Senate, 1953-1955
Early in January 1953, a very frightened and somewhat timid desert rat landed in Washington, feeling as out of place as anyone possibly could.
I had not been in my hotel room 15 minutes when the phone rang and the voice at the other end said, `This is Mark Trice.' I wondered then who that could be.
In 1953, with the Republicans back in the majority, the fifty-year-old Trice finally advanced to the post of Senate secretary.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/SOS_Mark_Trice.htm   (1489 words)

  
 Vatican City - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Renaissance popes, principally Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII, were great patrons of the arts, and it was they who began to assemble the great collections and to construct the wonderful galleries.
Gregory XIII and Sixtus V spent huge sums on the Vatican and also began the Quirinal, a palace that served as the papal residence from the 17th to the 19th cent., was the Italian royal palace from 1870 to 1946, and is now the home of the president of Italy.
See M. Bonney, The Vatican (photographs with explanations, 1940); K. Isper, Vatican Art (1953); R. Neville, The World of the Vatican (1962); P. Letarouilly, Vatican (2 vol., 1954-64); A. Lipinsky, The Vatican (tr.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Vatican.asp   (1123 words)

  
 collector: Animation Art: The Early Years 1911-1953 (Schiffer Book of Collectors)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Animation art is among the most popular contemporary art forms.
With nearly 6800 pieces of animation art illustrated in this exciting book, most in color, Jeff Lotman covers the early period of animation, from the founding of the Winsor McKay Studio in 1911 to 1954 (a future volume will continue to the present).
The art illustrated was offered at auction, which means that it is in the marketplace, an important fact for collectors.
bookstore.mycollectorcenter.com /n_0887407633.htm   (638 words)

  
 Bibliography of Aesthetics
The Worlds of Art and the World, ed.
John Cage, statement on Robert Rauschenberg, show of all-white paintings, at the Stable Gallery, 1953.
in Emily Genauer's column in the New York Herald Tribune, December 27, 1953, p.
www.henryflynt.org /aesthetics/bibaesth.html   (1331 words)

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