Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attention of new students in the University is also called to the permanent collection of early Italian and Flemish paintings in the upper gallery, and to the collection of ancient art in the entrance hall on the ground floor. Many phases of Italian painting of the 14th and 15th centuries are illustrated in first rate examples; and there are important works by such masters as Pintoricchio, Cosimo Tura, Andrea Vanni, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Benozzo Gozzoli, Matteo da Siena and Niccolo da Foligno, names perhaps little known to most undergraduates, but of growing importance to all connoisseurs and lovers...
...valuable paintings of the sixteenth century have been lent to the Fogg Art Museum for an indefinite period, by Mrs. John Elliott. The first is "The Assumption of the Virgin," a painting by a Flemish master. The second is a portrait of King Philip II of Spain by a Spanish master...
...engraving by Dirick Jacobas Vellert, known also as Dirk van Star, has been purchased for the Gray Collection. He is an interesting Flemish master, who worked in the first half of the sixteenth century, and this print, representing Christ calling Peter and Andrew, is one of the most attractive of his plates...
...will be 96 feet long, 44 feet wide, and rising 50 feet from floor to ceiling, will extend up through four floors of the building. The longer side of the hall will run east and west. The floor will be of stone. The room will be wainscoated in Flemish oak for 15 feet above the floor, and the walls for the rest of the way will be made of stone. The ceiling will be, after the style of the old Italian palaces, heavily beamed and coffered. Six large windows, beginning above the wainscoting and extending...
...general inside finish of the house will be Flemish oak. All the important rooms will have fire-places. There will be an inter-communicating telephone system, a passenger elevator, and all the other conveniences which are to be expected in a modern club or hotel...