Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum two primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer of architecture at Yale University. One of the pictures is a figure of St. Michael, by the Byzantine Gothic Guariento of Padua. The form is very similar to the figures of the angels of the Heavenly Host, by the same painter, in the Museum of Padua. The other picture is by a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione, Gregorio Schiavone; it was recently shown in the exhibition of Italian primitives at the Kleinberger galleries, New York. It represents a Madonna...
...largely black. That austerity that is only hinted at in the saddest parts of Brittany, is in Spain magnified to the dignity of a persistent vision, brooding in the colorless sky, dispelled, or rather, transformed, only for a moment in the heat of noon, intense, akin to the early Gothic. It is strain to the verge of insanity. In England, Blake's engravings have something of its spirit. It is fundamental in Spain and it is what Goya and el Greco and now Zuloaga have put in their paintings...
...painting of the collection of Sir Charles Robinson, this "Annunciation" was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1880, at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1908, and at the Grafton Galleries, London, in 1913. It is enclosed in the original carved frame of elaborate Gothic design, which is preserved in all its beauty. The picture was discovered in Madrid about 1870, and is signed, beneath the figure of the Angel of the Annunciation on a cartellino, "Maestre ju de Burgos pitor...
...picture comes from the collection of Sir Charles Robinson and was publicly exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy, in 1908 at the Burlington, Fine Arts Club, and in 1913 at the Grafton Galleries, London. The original carved frame of an elaborate Gothic design is presented in all its beauty. The picture is signed beneath the figure of the Angel of the Annunciation on a cartellino: Maestre jude Burgos pitor." The picture is made up of two doors of a triptych altar-piece and the figures are painted in temperaon a gold ground punctured with elaborate foliated work...
...Edgell will give a conference on this picture next Tuesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The Fogg Museum gives the following account of Gentile's life and work. "Gentile was an Umbrian artist who was subjected at various times to different influences. At first he felt the Byzantine and Gothic, and later was influenced by Florentine naturalism and Sienese refinement. He was a good story teller and better still, was a poet. He influenced not only Umbrian masters, but the painters of the Marches, Venice and North Italy. In 1423 he painted his most famous work, the "Epiphany...