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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?