Word: conventionally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...auction sale held in London last week, the Fogg Museum acquired parts of a large altarpiece by Spinello Aretino, the central panel of which is now in the Fogg Museum. This picture was described by Vasari as being painted for the convent of Monte Oliveto, near Siena, in 1385. The great altarpiece has long since been dismembered and scattered. Certain parts are in Siena, some are in Budapest, and the central panel, representing the Madonna and Child and Angels, went first to a collection in Florence, later to London, and has now been in the Fogg Museum for eleven years...
...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by he director, Edward W. Forbes, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. The Museum has received the following additions to its permanent collections of works of art: two water color drawings by John Ruskin--"Convent and Alpine Pass," and "Pass of Faido"--presented by friends of Professor C. H. Moore, the first director of the Fogg Museum; from the French government, eight pieces of Sevres porcelain; a Japanese painting by an early Ukiyoye master from Mr. Owen Bryant '04; and thirty-six plaster casts of Arretine moulds from...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently received two beautiful water-color sketches by Ruskin, one of the Faido Pass, the other of an Alpine Pass and Convent. These drawings have been given to the Fogg Museum by friends of Professor C. H. Moore h.'90, the first director of the Museum, in recognition of his long service to the University...
...Arthur Clare forbids his daughter, Millicent, to marry the lover of her childhood, Raymond Mounchensey because the latter has had a reversal of fortune and picks out Frank Jerningham as a better match. Jerningham is, however, a true friend of Raymond and, when Millicent is sent to a convent to forget her old love, aids Mounchensey in his attempts to steal the girl away. The merry Devil confounds the pursuing father in the forest and thus helps the young couple to escape. Forgiveness and marriage bring the episode to a close. Though the devil hardly comes into contact with...
...reversal in the fortunes of Mounchensey, Sir Arthur Clare, Millicent's father, forbids the wedding, and decides upon a match with Frank Jeringham, who is Raymond's close friend. In order to make Millicent forget her love for Mounchensey, she is sent to spend a year in a convent, after which her marriage with Jeringham is to take place...