Word: etruscans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current exhibition of Etruscan can art, the Fogg Museum has received on loan some unique bronzes from the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. These rare bronzes help to round out the exhibition of art of a race that for centuries dominated Rome...
...collection is to be exhibited is the Balcony Room, on the second floor, until Sunday, December 31. There will be a gallery talk on Etruscan art in the exhibition room on Friday from 1 to 4 o'clock...
...outstanding pieces is a bronze statue of an Etruscan girl of the sixth century B.C., loaned by the Metropolitan Museum, and formerly in the Morgan collection. Comparable is this statuette is a later figure of an other Etruscan girl, in the Hoppin collection of the Fogg Museum...
...Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest of the etchings, picture books, Persian rugs, Gothic and Renaissance bronzes & marbles, Etruscan urns and other pomps & gauds assembled in the financier's long acquisitive life for a total...
Last week despatches from Rome told of another use for the divining rod. Maria Mataloni of Lepringnano startled savants several months ago by finding a Roman tomb with her divining rod near Capena, ruined ancient Etruscan town. Last week she was taken to Pompeii by Professor Amedeo Maiuri of Naples Museum, located several places in the buried city where, she said, were hidden gold, silver, bronze...