Word: fra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with the custom of exhibiting from time to time single loans of interest, the Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its Gallery a small painting by Fra Angelico. The painting is doubtless one of a series of panels which formerly formed the predella to the San Marco Altarpiece. Other of these predella panels are in the Academy at Florence; in Munich; in the National Gallery, Dublin; and in the Louvre. The panels represent scenes from the lives of St. Cosmo and St. Damian. The scene portrayed in the panel now at the Fogg Museum doubtless represents the "lady...
...studies the history of painting seriously cannot ignore the Italian art of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. In fact most of the greatest painters of the western world appeared during these centuries. In the Fogg Museum may now be seen works by such men as Simono Martini, Lorenzetti, Fra Angelico, Pintoricchio, Vivarini, and Tintoretto, to mention only a few. These names of earlier artists are becoming better and better known and more beloved as the knowledge of art and taste progresses in the modern world. There are also works by later masters easier to understand, as the fine portrait...
...command, and with the assistance of generous friends, have built up a collection of masterpieces of painting that is widely representative and in value compares with any other collection of its size. The new Masaccio Crucifixion; last year's edition of the Gozzoli fresco; and this year's notable Fra Angelico, are but examples of the gems which the museum houses. And for those whose taste fails to appreciate madonnas and crucifixions, there are more robust pictures by later masters, Dutch, Spanish and English. The collection from native artists, though small, gives a clue to the type of work done...
...important recent addition to the Italian primitives in the Fogg Art Museum is a painting by Fra Angelico, representing the Crucifixion...
...late work and of great beauty and dignity of conception and execution. It is well preserved and is a valuable addition to the paintings by Fra Angelico in this country, two of which are in Boston, one, and early picture at Fenway Court, and one at the Museum of Fine Arts...