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...paintings, which form the most important part of the bequest, are the works of several of the old masters. They are mostly of the Italian Renaissance School, with a few Dutch and Spanish pictures. Among the latter is a small canvas of El Greco's "Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple." The "Portrait of a Preacher" by Franz Hals, is also included in the collection, as is Murillo's "Holy Family...
...Middle Ages down to modern art. The subjects of his lectures will be as follows: February 5, "Adam Elsheimer and Northern Artists in Rome"; February 12, "Rubens and Van Dyck in their Relations with Italy"; February 19, "Poussin and Claude"; February 26, "Claude's Drawings"; March 5, "El Greco and Modern Art"; March 12, Conclusion: "Italy the School of the world...
...Fogg Museum of Art there are several exhibitions of worth. The paintings of the Naumburg Bequest, including Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man", El Greco's "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple," and "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, are perhaps the most important. There are also exhibitions of nineteenth century watercolors, Rembrandt etchings, and Old Master drawings, as well as the new loan exhibition of objects excavated at Ur by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of Pennsylvania...
...Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple." Several Italian primitives and other Flemish and Dutch works are also included in the bequest...
...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...