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That strange character of the early Renaissance whose versatility rivals that of Leonardo, Leone Battista Alberti, is to be the subject of Professor Edgell's lecture at noon today in Robinson Hall to his students and vagabonds in Fine Arts 7a. Alberti was one of the foremost organists of his day: he wrote Latin verses with ease and skill: his Della Statua is one of the earliest critical works on sculpture, as is his De Pictura on the art of painting. It is his fame as an architect, however, that has best survived, and it is of this phase...
...Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), Italian, studied the pathology of the organs...
...ancients. The chief Italian and the chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals are, for the most part, of considerable size, ranging from 40 or 50 to nearly 200 millimetres in diameter...