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University mourns the loss of Landscape Architecture Professor Richard Sheridan
Jan. 30, 2023 In the days pursuing the unforeseen death of University of Rhode Island Professor Richard Edward Sheridan, URI group users are remembering him as a focused, witty and heat guy who loved his spouse and children, his occupation and the seashore. The 75-yr-previous landscape architecture professor and South Kingstown resident died the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 24. Professor Emeritus Angelo Simeoni Jr. termed Richard a colleague and a brother. “We laughed, we collaborated on tips and approaches on how to make landscape architecture at URI the finest possible system in the region,” Simeoni stated. “We conversed (and argued) about the best park, historic gardens, politics, architecture, Woodstock (the…
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Q&A: Historian Richard Bushman and the relevance of Latter-day Saint art
What was the first substantial work of art in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? If you ask Richard Bushman, considered by many as the dean of historians in Mormon studies, the answer centers around the church’s earliest temples. “The Saints, without means, in their time of poverty, put a huge amount of effort into the Kirtland temple,” Bushman told the Deseret News. “They carved those sunstones, moonstones and star stones because the temple deserved to be beautified and honored by art. If you put beauty at the center of our religious culture, that means it’s sort of essential. Our greatest work of Mormon art,…
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