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HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT.

The work offered re-establishes the instruction outlined in the first curriculum
of the University, 1818, the earliest proposal for instruction in art, architecture
and music in any American university. An unrivalled background is provided
for it by the buildings and environment of Charlottesville; the University
group, with its old buildings especially designed to furnish examples of the various
orders "as specimens for the architectural lectures," its new buildings designed
by Stanford White; the works of sculpture by Houdon, Ezekiel, Bitter,
Borglum, Keck, Shrady, and Aitken; the paintings and prints presented by
Messrs. Thomas F. Ryan, John Barton Payne, John Armstrong Chaloner and
others; the concerts and exhibitions of paintings brought to the University with
part of the income of the McIntire fund. For the current work in art and architecture
there is generous provision of casts, books, photographs, and lantern

slides, as well as a number of envoi drawings by former holders of the Roman
Prize and the Rotch Travelling Scholarship.

Inquiries from prospective students of Architecture regarding choice of
electives, transfer of credits from other departments or other institutions, etc.,
may be addressed to Fiske Kimball, Professor of Art and Architecture.