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===Frick Auditorium=== The Frick Auditorium is a lecture hall in room 324 of the Cathedral of Learning. Originally conceptualized as the Fine Arts Lecture Room intended to complement the Fine Arts Department then located on the seventh floor,<ref>{{cite book|title=Planning the Pitt Campus: Dreams and Schemes Never Realized|chapter=A Different Approach: the Arts and Crafts Village|first=Jeannine|last=Gibel-Lukens|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|date=November 5, 1993}}</ref> the room was completed in 1939<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?xc=1;g=documentingpitt;didno=31735062128347;idno=31735062128347;view=image;seq=50|journal=Pitt|title=Documenting Pitt|number=27|date=Winter 1947|page=48|access-date=April 12, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210060544/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?xc=1%3Bg%3Ddocumentingpitt%3Bdidno%3D31735062128347%3Bidno%3D31735062128347%3Bview%3Dimage%3Bseq%3D50|archive-date=February 10, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and features stone [[mullions]], [[chambranle]], and other trim as well as wooden lecture seating and a [[coffer]]ed ceiling. A centerpiece element in the room is a Nicholas Lochoff reproduction of ''[[Resurrection (Piero della Francesca)|The Resurrection]]'' by [[Piero della Francesca]] that was purchased for the lecture hall by [[Helen Clay Frick]]. Frick would later donate a large collection of Lochoff reproductions to the university which are on display in the Nicholas Lochoff Cloister in the university's [[Frick Fine Arts Building]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.haa.pitt.edu/resources/documents/ffab.pdf |title=Frick Fine Arts Building & The Nicholas Lochoff Cloister |journal=Frick Fine Arts Library Library Guide Series |issue=25 |date=August 15, 2006 |access-date=November 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627200101/http://www.haa.pitt.edu/resources/documents/ffab.pdf |archive-date=June 27, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref>
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