Word: giotto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thursday at 4.30 o'clock Professor F. J. Mather Jr. of Princeton University will take as his subject, "'St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata' at the Fogg Art Museum and Other Paintings by Giotto in America." The painting referred to is one of the art treasures of the Museum and is especially valuable as it is one of the few paintings by Giotto in America. Both of the lectures will be given in the large lecture room at the Museum...
...great Giotto painted himself into one of his murals at Padua as one of a crowd of penitent sinners. Last week the art world learned that Giotto's chief living disciple has also painted himself into a mural, not as a sinner, for he is a Communist and does not believe in that sort of thing, but as an artist at work...
...born at Chevilly of French Swiss origin in 1806 and died in Paris in 1874. His early training was begun in Lyon, where he studied under an artist named Bounefond and in 1825 he went to Paris to begin his major training. In 1828 he travelled in Italy, copying Giotto frescoes in Padus, visiting Florence and Rome. In the latter places he spent four years, and in the year 1833 was represented as an exhibitor in the Paris' Salon...
...other last week that years ago-when Princess Maria, little sister of Princess Giovanna, was desperately ill, Giovanna had come to Assisi to make her novena, had sworn that if Maria recovered she, Giovanna, would be married at the tomb of St. Francis under the walls made glorious by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), greatest of "primitive" mural painters...