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December 3, 1973: Thieves net 5,000 coins in a heist at the Fogg. Their value is reputedly close to $5 million...
April 6, 1973: Greek coins stolen from the Fogg Museum. The coins, from 5th and 6th century BC, are valued...
...internationally renowned artists and critics each year as faculty in undergraduate courses; creating one of the country’s preeminent lecture series in the visual arts, aimed at undergraduate interests and open to the entire community; organizing all Carpenter Center exhibitions since 1996; coordinating projects with the Fogg museum and its director, James Cuno, to make available more studio, seminar, and shared exhibition space; and fundraising annually for visiting faculty salaries, for speakers’ honoraria, for events at the Carpenter Center and for the Harvard Film Archive, bringing in well over $1 million since...
Entering a world of lush golds and velvet reds, surrounded by Madonnas and Byzantine icons, it was as if I had walked right into 14th century Renaissance Venice. Harvard Fogg Art Museum’s “Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice,” showcasing 30 paintings and prints by Renaissance masters such as Titian and Bellini, comprising of collections from the Museum of Fine Arts to the Louvre, may quite well be one of New England’s most exciting exhibitions this year...
...focus on the gradual progression from iconographical elements to a naturalist setting ultimately culminates into the Fogg Museum’s core acquisition for this exhibit—The “Sacra conversazione”(also known as “Virgin and Child with Saints”), a Venetian altarpiece by an unknown artist dating from 1515. The altarpiece depicts the Virgin and Child occupied in a sacred conversation with saints, a “sacra conversazione.” With the paintings soft colors and sense of space, its former attribution to Renaissance masters such as Bellini...