Word: giotto
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...second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding to a subtle warmth, their rapt, expressionless madonnas began softly to smile...
...famed paintings, decorated with furnishings that are authentic works of Art in their own right. There are Italian cassone, papal chairs, a cheminée of Francis the First. Spanish embossed leather covers the walls of one room. Among the artists represented are Raphael, Veronese, Titian, Botticelli,, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Pollaiuolo, da Fabriano, Diirer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera, Velasquez, Sargent, Zorn, La Farge, Whistler. Three of the most famous paintings are da Fabriano's Madonna and Child, Titian's magnificent Rape of Europa, and the glorious Velasquez portrait Pope Innocent X. It is hoped that...
...subject of art wholly by means of photographic reproduction. It has certainly been our experience here that as we get more and better pictures at Harvard, the students flock more to the Museum and are increasingly enthusiastic. The students are not taught here that the art died with Giotto or even with Turner. On the contrary there are several pictures by Sargent, Willslow Homer, Dodge Macknight and other modern Americans in the Museum...
...Carruth, who recently gave a series of four lectures on Italian art at the Episcopal Theological School, will deliver a lecture on the same subject for the benefit of the public at the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Carruth's subject will be "Giotto at Padua; a study of his free goes in the Arena Chapel". The lecture will be illustrated with reproductions in color...
...many years is unique among private collections in its completeness, variety, and setting. Paintings and sculpture from all over the world, and of the different epochs are to be seen harmoniously arranged together. In the collection are original masterpieces by the great Italian painters Raphael, Botticelli, titian, and Giotto, the Flemish Van Dyck, Rubens, and Rembrandt, and the Spaniard Velasquez. Besides paintings, there are numerous other well known pieces of art, such as Romanesque sculptures and a bust by Cellini...