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Though of all the years,
we are the first

We are, dear readers,
not the worst.

In fact, ’tis whispered round
or have you guessed

| Of all the years ’tis said,
—— we are the best.
Mh We offer now, therefore,

\\ | ‘engi this page inspired,

On which all first year muses

have perspired.

Did you know that...

1—The Louvre was converted into a stronghold by Philip Augustus
in 1214, and used as a state prison?
2—Rosa Bonheur, famous painter of animals, exhibited two pictures _
at the Salon when only 18 years of age?
4 3—The Van Eyck brothers (Jan and Hubert) were claimed to have |
been the inventors of oil painting?
4, Francois Lemoine, a French historical painter, put an end to his life
in a fit on insanity, as did Vincent Van Gogh.
5—Holbein, Raphael, Bonheur and Picasso took
early art instruction from their fathers?
6—Massaccio, whose proper name was Tom-
masso Guidi, lived for only 27 years?
7—Ducornet, a French artist (1806-1856) was
/ born without arms and learned in early

- childhood to use his feet for hands?

12) 8—Renoir, after an illness, because he was not
able to find a pencil with which to draw a
vase became delirious, and died.

9—Botticelli, Leonardo and Perugino were fel-
low-students under tuition of Verrocchio?

10—Titian died of the plague in 1576 at 99?

11—Fresco, Italian for “fresh,” is applied to pic-
tures done on a fresh, wet plaster ground?