Robinson Hall Bronze Doors.

The cast bronze doors for Robinson Hall presented last year by Mr. E. Robinson, of New York, brother of the donor of the Hall, have recently been set up. They are Renaissance in exterior design, and Greek within, and are 14 feet high and 7 feet wide.

Designed in the style of the Italian Renaissance, they are unique in that parts such as stiles and rails, usually without decoration, are here covered with rich ornamentation in low relief. The delicacy of the individual modelling has been retained in the casting and no chasing, or sharpening of the ornament has been done.

The doors do not swing in one leaf, but have been divided into two parts, so that the lower can swing open, leaving the upper closed, thus providing a doorway of the usual dimensions. When desired, however, the upper half of the doors can also be opened.

The exterior panels, thirty-two in all are very elaborate. They are divided by stiles and rails intersecting in carved rosettes. Eight are occupied by portrait medallions of famous architectural designers of the past, and the rest by shields with the Harvard "H." On the left hand door are the heads of Brunelleschi, Michael Angelo, Alberti and Sangallo, and on the right, Lescot, Peruzzi, Bramante and Sansovino.