To mark the Spencer’s 30th anniversary in 2008 and the July 2009 release of the FY08 Register, Marilyn Stokstad, author, art historian, curator, and Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art History, weaves a tale of adventure involving the stone tympanum that graces the Spencer’s Central Court.
But only the first paragraph of her scholarly reminiscence appears in print in the Register. The complete illustrated anecdote—the Museum’s first foray into online publishing—can be viewed below.