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Professor A. Kingsley Porter, of Yale University, has loaned two beautiful Italian primitive paintings to the Fogg Art Museum. One of the works is a Gothic triptych by the rare Simone da Bologna, who painted in the 14th century. The other painting is attributed to Jacob di Cione, brother of Orcagna, and is also very rich in colors...
...Fogg Museum has recently purchased an early Italian painting attributed to Marco Zoppo of Bologna...
Signor Ferrero is a graduate of the University of Bologna. He is famous especially for his history, "The Greatness and Decline of Rome," the fourth volume of which has just been published and translated into English and French. Two years ago he delivered a series of lectures at the "College de France" in Paris, which were remarkable for his vivid treatment of past events. His history deals with the subject form a modern point of view and in modern terms...
...forget that the revival of learning in Italy was brought about by a long succession of causes. The link between mediaeval and modern literature is Petrarch. Descended from Florentine ancestry, he was born in 1304. He spent his youth in exile, and was educated at the University of Bologna. His first great achievement was the discovery of Cicero's "Pro Archia" in 1333. He spent a quiet life at Vaucluse and Arqua, where he died in 1374. Petrarch saturated his life with a careful study of the classics, to which he was early attracted by their perfection of form...
...series of photographs of sculptures of the Italian Renaissance is now on view in the upper gallery of the Fogg Museum. Among the masters represented are: Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Michael Angelo, Mino da Fiesola, Verrocchio, Benvenuto Cellini, and Giovanni da Bologna...