College Art News

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General Renaissance Conference The Graduate School of the Ohio State University presented the Fourth Annual Conference on the Humanities, October 27 and 28, Subject of the conference was “The Renaissance Image of Man and the World.” The emphasis of this conference was on what Renaissance men and women thought of themselves and their age, their own interpretations as seen in their music, art, literature, philosophy, and science. Representing the field of art, visiting scholar Professor H. W. Janson of New York University, spoke on “The Image of Man in Renaissance Art—from Donatello to Michelangelo.” A Renaissance art exhibition opened at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts in honor of the conference.