Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conference on the Gentile de Fabriano panel. Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Fogg Art Museum...
...Conference on the Gentile da Fabriano panel. Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Fogg Art Museum...
There is on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum for a few days a painting on panel by Gentile de Fabriano, representing the Madonno, seated with the Christ-child. It is a singularly beautiful work by a rare master of the school now called "International," and it is hoped that it may be secured for the University. In 1876 it was exhibited in the Royal Academy. Its rich, deep reds and blues against a gold background make of it a striking bit of decoration, as well as a very great work...
Professor Edgell will give a conference on this picture next Tuesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The Fogg Museum gives the following account of Gentile's life and work. "Gentile was an Umbrian artist who was subjected at various times to different influences. At first he felt the Byzantine and Gothic, and later was influenced by Florentine naturalism and Sienese refinement. He was a good story teller and better still, was a poet. He influenced not only Umbrian masters, but the painters of the Marches, Venice and North Italy. In 1423 he painted his most famous work, the "Epiphany...
...Fogg Art Museum is now showing as a temporary loan a beautiful Flemish triptych, attributed to Marcellus Koffermans, who, in 1549, was admitted as free master into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. One of his paintings, the "Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine," is dated 1568, and it is likely that the triptych, now on exhibition was painted at about that time. Other pictures by the master are to be found in the Museums of Brussels and Berlin...