From: akatlas@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 02:11:41 -0500
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To: mitgaard@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: On-line Vatican and Renaissance exhibit  [rec.org.sca #34466]


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Just to keep up the mythology that I occasionally post useful and interesting
things here instead of my usual off-hand comments,  here's an announcement of
something that sounds really nifty -
                                           (Therion)

>                           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
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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