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...composition. Against the wall of the print room partition hangs the superb 17th Century Spanish painting of "St. Jerome" by Ribera. This recently purchased canvass was well known for years in the Portalis Collection. Before one passes into the print room, two Italian paintings, the gift of Mr. Bernhard Berenson '87, a distinguished art critic, attract the attention. These pictures were given by Mr. Berenson in recognition of the work that is being done at the Fogg Museum in building up a really notable collection...
...Fogg Art Museum has again received from an anonymous lender in New York an important 15th century oil and tempera painting, attributed by Bernhard Berenson '87 to Pietro Dei France chi, called Piero Della Frances. The picture comes from the collection of the Colonna family in Rome, and was formerly in that of the Doria family in Milan. It is now exhibited at the Museum for the second time...
...picture now in the Fogg Art Museum is extremely beautiful in color. Mr. Berenson believes that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes, and of the color he said, he should be at a loss to point to any other. Italian work that is of a color at once so powerful and yet neither warm nor cold, but fused in a manner soft as harmonious...
...attributed to Gentile by Crowe and Cavalcaselle, A. Colosanti and B. Berenson, as well as by the members of the Fine Arts Department...
...picture is extremely beautiful in color, and Mr. Berenson believes that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes. It will be on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum for about a week...