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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [rec.music.early] Vatican Exhibit at Library of Congress
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.224801.14534@eff.org>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:48:01 GMT
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- Subject: Vatican Exhibit at Library of Congress
- Message-ID: <GONTER.930123170504@AWIWUW11>
- From: Gerhard Gonter <GONTER@AWIWUW11.BITNET>
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:05:04 +0100 (CET)
-
- Kathryn D. Ellis (kell@seq1.loc.gov) sent me the following announcement
- and asked me to post it to the list. (Please forgive me if you read
- this information already elsewhere.) -Gerhard.Gonter@wu-wien.ac.at
-
-
- ANNOUNCING
- a new
- ONLINE EXHIBIT
- from
- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
-
-
-
- ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE
-
- an Exhibit at the
- Library of Congress
- Washington, DC 20540
-
- Available by anonymous FTP from
- seq1.loc.gov
- (140.147.3.12)
-
- /pub/vatican.exhibit
-
-
-
- ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
- presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious
- manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in
- the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and
- Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican
- Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of
- Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the
- Renaissance. The exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson
- Building of the Library of Congress from January 8, 1993 through
- April 30, 1993. The online exhibit will be available by
- anonymous FTP indefinitely.
-
- The exhibit is divided into nine (9) sections: The Vatican
- Library, Archaeology, Humanism, Mathematics, Music, Medicine &
- Biology, Nature Described, A Wider World I: How the Orient Came
- to Rome, and A Wider World II: How Rome Went to China. Each
- section consists of its own sub-directory within the /exhibit
- directory and contains the exhibit text for that section and
- separate JPEG image files for each object. This online exhibit
- includes not only objects from the Library of Congress exhibit,
- but also the alternate objects (brought from Rome to be used if
- there were a problem with one of the primary objects) and items
- omitted later in the planning process.
-
- This exhibit will be of interest to Medieval and Renaissance
- scholars in particular, but also to art historians, historians of
- science or medicine, early music scholars, students of the
- humanist movement, students of printing and the printed word,
- theologians, scholars of both Far and Near Eastern studies, and
- to librarians and information professionals. Please get the
- README file for details on what files this exhibit contains. If
- you have questions about how to use FTP, speak to your local
- computer support person. If you have questions or comments about
- the CONTENT of the exhibit, please write to vatican@kell.loc.gov
- while if you have any questions or comments on the SYSTEM please
- contact me.
-
- -- K.D. Ellis
-
- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- K.D. Ellis
- Special Projects Office
- Library of Congress
- Washington, DC 20540-9100
- Internet: kell@seq1.loc.gov
- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-