Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past year at the Fogg Art Museum was marked by the purchase of Sassetta's "Christ in Limbo," and of "Paris Master," a Cassoni panel, and by the gift of a collection of forty-eight Italian fourteenth-sixteenth century miniatures, and of the picture, "Madonna and Child and Two Saints," of the school of Ghirlandaio. Under the direction of Mr. Edward Waldo Forbes '95, Director of the Museum, and of Mr. Paul Joseph Sachs '00, the new Assistant Director, five important special loan exhibitions were held, 33 smaller loans of works of art were made, nine lecturers gave 31 public...
...other gifts were as follows: One Persian miniature; one late Byzantine miniature; one sixteenth-century Italian brocade; reproductions of Japanese works of art; two Japanese prints; wood block engraved by Timothy Cole; Japanese book; 37 engravings and etchings; 228 books; 196 photographs; 2485 slides; $75 prizes for drawing and painting; $2000 annual Research Fellowship in Fine Arts. The most important exhibitions were those of early Italian engravings. Spanish paintings, lithographs, English water colors, and drawings by Old Masters...
...works of art loaned and exhibited for periods ranging from one week to six months were: Tintoretto, "Diana"; Piero Della Francesca, "Crucifixion"; Pesellino, "Building of the Temple"; Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Turner, "Pas de Calais"; Byzantine panel, 13th century, "Scenes from Life of St. Peter"; Rogier van der Weyden, "Noli me tangere"; Lucas Cranach, "Lady in Red Gown"; Filippino Lippi, "Descent from the Cross"; Moretto da Brescia, "The Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa...
...either upon war and military tactics or upon agricultural problems. One is a work that appeared in 1775 on the Prussian evaluations as used by Frederick the Great, and which was purchased directly after its publication. In fact, he appears to have purchased all the best works on military art shortly after they appeared...
While the society will use only the Grand Prize design in advertising the celebration, a stimulus is given to wide participation in the competition by special prizes for artists, art students, and undergraduates. There is a second prize of $500 and another of $300 for that design which is a public choice. Votes of visitors to the exhibitions will betaken to determine the latter. These exhibitions will be held in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. For the best poster on the advantages of electric light, heat, and power submitted by an art student, the society will award...