Word: frescoe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the Christmas vacation a large fresco painting by Nicholas Lockoff, a Russian artist, has been placed in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The fresco is a remarkable copy of a section of the larger work, painted in 1459 by Bonzzo Gozzoli of the Florentine School, on the walls of the chapel in the Medici Palace, now known as the Riccardi Palace, in Florence. It represents "Lorenzo the Magnificent," mounted on a richly caparisoned white horse at the head of "The Procesion of the Magi." He wears a yellow and gold tunic with red sleeves, red silk...
...portion of a fresco painting which has not previously been on exhibition has recently been hung in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The picture is divided into two panels by borders painted in imitation of marble inlay. In the upper panel is a figure of God the Father, in the character of Judge, and in the lower panel is shown the Death of a Bishop. Below is painted a fringed curtain with embroidered border. The fresco is probably the work of the North Italian school, and shows a relation to the work of the fourteenth century painter, Tommaso...