Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Osvald Siren, the distinguished Scandinavian critic and student of early Italian art, will deliver the eighth of his series of lectures on "Giotto and His Followers" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The title of the lecture will be "The Frescoes in Santa Chiara at Assisi and Other Works by the Same Artist. Taddeo Gaddi." These lectures are open to the public...
Three new pictures are now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum. Two of these are likely to be temporary loans only, while the third, a Florentine so-called Cassone panel, is to be added to the permanent collection of the Museum. This picture represents, in fine composition and typically brilliant color, a favorite mythological theme, "The Judgment of Paris." It was recently reproduced in "Arts and Decoration," in an article by Professor Frank Mather of Princeton University. It was also published by Professor Schubring in his work on panels of this general character, and is attributed...
...into three pieces; the other, which is at the Boston Museum, is an altar wing showing four Saints. The Fogg picture is consequently of unusual importance. It is of special interest for any collection of early Italian paintings, since Fra Filippo holds so significant a position in Florentine art, representing as he does the transition from late Gothic to early Renaissance. It belongs evidently to the master's latest period, and is in style closely connected with his frescoes in the Duomo at Spoleto, left unfinished at his death in 1469. I would thus be inclined to date the picture...
Professor G. H. Edgell '09, of the Fine Arts Department in the University, will hold a conference on these paintings in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...Book Committee.--Bulkley Livermore Wells, of Telluride, Colo., chairman; George Abbott Brownell, of New York, chairman of cuts and photographs; Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, of New York, chairman of the art department; John Blauvelt Hopkins, of Wellesley Hills, chairman of the copy and registration department; Philip Zach, of Roxbury, chairman for advertisements and subscriptions...