“This marble cathedral, which the labors of four centuries have not…” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“This marble cathedral, which the labors of four centuries have not fully completed, is the most glorious piece of embroidery in stone that man might wish to see.”

An exuberant appreciation of Milan Cathedral and monumental art · Letter from Europe

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

29 August 1809–7 October 1894

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…

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