Word: ancient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bartolo; an Adoration of the Magi, presumably the work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano, a Roman painter of the sixteenth century. In addition to these Mr. Forbes has sent two ancient marble heads, and an ancient Greek marble grave relief. From Mr. James Loeb have been received a collection of fragments of Arretine moulds, including specimens of the ware, and three early Greek tripods. Two of these tripods will be lent for one year to-the Metropolitan Museum of New York...
There is now on exhibition at the Fogg Museum a collection of Arretine Moulds, with fragments of the ware and casts from them. Arretine ware is a rather uncommon variety of ancient pottery and this collection is unusually interesting as there are practically no more specimens obtainable. The collection is deposited by Mr. James Loeb...
...Greenough '64 has presented to the collection 393 modern coins, R. G. Fuller '04, 1798 coins, and Rev. G. P. Knapp '87, missionary at Harpoot, Turkey, 117 ancient and medieval coins through B. A. G. Fuller...
There have recently been put on exhibition at the Fogg Museum, through the kindness of E. W. Forbes '95, a number of early Italian paintings and ancient marbles. These include "Mandonna with Angels," by Taddeo di Bartolo; "Portrait of a Cardinal," by Scipio Gaetano; "Adoration of the Magi," probably by Cosimo Tura; and "St. Jerome," by Matteo da Siena. The three new marbles are an Attic gravestone of the fourth century, and two female heads of a late period. The seven original Greek sculptures, already on exhibition, have been grouped in the east end of the room in a more...
Books by Harvard graduates which have recently been published are: "The Happy Life," by President Eliot; "Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter," by Theodore Roosevelt '80; "London Films," by W. D. Howells h. '67; 10 volumes of "The American Nation," by A. B. Hart '80; "The Ancient Grudge," by A. S. Pier '95; "The Appreciation of Pictures," by Russell Sturgis '78; "In the Heights," by R. W. Glider h. '90; "Jules of the Great Heart," by Lawrence Mott '05; "Part of a Man's Life, by T. W. Higginson '41; "The Pardoner's Wallet," by S. M. Crothers...