Word: cosimo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Forbes '95 the Museum has received three drawings by J. M. W. Turner; four early Italian tempera paintings on panel,--a Madonna and Child with Angels, attributed to Spinello Aretino; one of the same subject, attributed to Taddeo di Bartolo; an Adoration of the Magi, presumably the work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano, a Roman painter of the sixteenth century. In addition to these Mr. Forbes has sent two ancient marble heads, and an ancient Greek marble grave relief. From Mr. James...
...have recently been put on exhibition at the Fogg Museum, through the kindness of E. W. Forbes '95, a number of early Italian paintings and ancient marbles. These include "Mandonna with Angels," by Taddeo di Bartolo; "Portrait of a Cardinal," by Scipio Gaetano; "Adoration of the Magi," probably by Cosimo Tura; and "St. Jerome," by Matteo da Siena. The three new marbles are an Attic gravestone of the fourth century, and two female heads of a late period. The seven original Greek sculptures, already on exhibition, have been grouped in the east end of the room in a more suitable...
...academies of the classic type, Dr. Sandys said, included primarily those of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome. The founding of the Academy of Florence by Cosimo dei Medici was one of the incidental and unexpected consequences of the Council of Florence, held in 1439. Foremost among the members of the academy was Politian, the general purport of whose poems may be gathered from a rendering of a single couplet: "O happy violets, which that hand hath prest...
...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...