Word: ambrogio
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...upper gallery, and to the collection of ancient art in the entrance hall on the ground floor. Many phases of Italian painting of the 14th and 15th centuries are illustrated in first rate examples; and there are important works by such masters as Pintoricchio, Cosimo Tura, Andrea Vanni, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Benozzo Gozzoli, Matteo da Siena and Niccolo da Foligno, names perhaps little known to most undergraduates, but of growing importance to all connoisseurs and lovers of art. The collection of original marbles includes the well known Meleager, of the type attributed to the great sculptor Scopas. In the Print Room...
...Fogg Museum has also received, as an indefinite loan, a small pinnacle representing St. Agnes, attributed to Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The little picture has much of the charm of the early Sienese School, though its some what rough execution does not compare favorably with the best work of Lorenzetti. It is the oldest painting in the Fogg Museum. Lorenzetti was active between 1323 and 1348, and this painting, even if executed by one of his pupils, was probably painted before 1350. The next earliest painting to this is a picture attributed to Spinello Aretino, which was probably painted in the year...