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...frescoes, which are 800 years old, are the work of an unknown artist. The central oval seems to be an inspiration from Revelations, IV: "After this I looked . . . and behold a throne was set in heaven and One sat on the throne. And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." The rest of the painting treats of the Apostles and the Nativity. After the casts over the fresco were removed, the cheese was scraped off by hand...
...Hawes, assistant director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will give an illustrated lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum on "Twelfth Century Apsidal Fresco from a Catalonian Church, Now Being Installed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts." The talk will be open to the public...
...Charles H. Hawes, Assistant Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will lecture in the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock on Wednesday, April 11. Mr. Hawes will speak about the twelfth century apsidal fresco taken from a Catalonian Church and now being installed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...Head" by Correggio. The painting, representing the head of a young boy, is the gift of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, and is supposed to be a study for the head of Sant 'Uario, patron saint of the city of Parma, one of the figures in the fresco of the dome of Parma Cathedral. Only a few changes have been made in the finished painting...
...funds at their 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...