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===''Alma Mater'' mural=== [[File:Yale Alma Mater Mural Highsmith.jpg|150px|thumb|The ''Alma Mater'' mural]] At the western end of the nave is a [[fresco]] painted by Eugene Savage, a professor in the [[Yale School of Art|Yale School of Art and Architecture]]. Savage titled it "The Imagination that Directs the University's Spiritual and Intellectual Efforts," but it is commonly known as the ''[[Alma Mater]]'' mural for its depiction of a personified "University."<ref>{{cite web |title=Eugene Francis Savage |publisher=National Academy Museum |url=http://www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/150/ |access-date=6 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212126/http://www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/150/ |archive-date=8 April 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Public Art">{{cite web |title=Public art at Yale - Alma Mater |publisher=Yale University |url=http://www.yale.edu/publicart/almamater.html |access-date=6 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408233825/http://www.yale.edu/publicart/almamater.html |archive-date=8 April 2014 }}</ref> Savage, an expert in [[Italian Renaissance painting#Early Renaissance painting|Early Renaissance]] techniques, painted the mural in his characteristic style, an [[Art Deco]] interpretation of traditional Renaissance composition.<ref>{{cite book |title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826β1925 |editor1-last=Wageman |editor1-first=Virginia |editor2-last=Freshman |editor2-first=Paul |year=2004 |edition=1st |publisher=Hudson Hills |pages=492β493 |isbn=9781555950293 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&pg=PA492 |access-date=6 April 2014}}</ref> Surrounding "Alma Mater" are personifications of [[discipline (academic)|academic disciplines]].<ref name="Public Art" />
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