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Finally and perhaps most important of all is the splendid "Madonna and Child" by Fra Filippo Lippi, which has been sent up from New York as a loan, for a few days only. Dr. Osvald Siren, now visiting lecturer at Harvard, has made a study of this picture and says of it: "The Fra Filippo now on exhibition in the Fogg Museum is one of the master's most interesting works. It is of unusual artistic charm and historical importance. There are, as we know, only two paintings by this master in American collections. The one is the picture formerly...
...Arts, have afforded an opportunity to study at first hand the artistic powers of this great modern master, such as has not before existed in this country. Also from Mr. Forbes, the Museum has received a large panel in tempera, representing St. Jerome and two other figures, by Fra Filippo Lippi, and a panel of the Madonna and Child, bearing the signature of John Bellini, both of which are good examples of the schools to which they respectively belong, and both are in excellent condition. A Grecian marble statue of Narcissus, the gift of the same donor, is a worthy...
...most important of these is an original Florentine "tabernaculo," which has the characteristics of Filippo Lippi. It is a beautiful example of Florentine painting at its best, in the fifteenth century, and is painted in tempera on panels, the middle one representing the Madonna and Child...