Word: cassoni
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...space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...
...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...
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