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2 unusual facts about Meyer Shapiro


Meyer Shapiro

Meir Shapiro, dean of Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, and founder of the Daf Yomi Talmud folio cycle

Robert Motherwell

In fact, it was Berger who advised Motherwell to continue his education at Columbia University, under Meyer Shapiro.


Maximianus of Ravenna

To a modern art historian Meyer Shapiro, "Maximian was "a poor deacon of Pola who to a high position through his political adroitness" as a protegé of Justinian II. He had not been wanted as archbishop by the people of Ravenna, but "by shrewd maneuvres he overcame their opposition, and won their respect by his discretion, generosity, and great enterprises of church building and decoration".


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