Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum has just received as a gift from Arthur Sachs '01, a beautiful Madonna and Child by the early Venetian painter, Jacobello del Fiore, the first painting by the master to enter an American public or private collection. The master was born, in 1385 and died...
...Engravings"; Mr. FitzRoy Carrington on the "Early Italian Engravings"; Professor C. R. Post '04 on the Spanish Paintings; Professor A. Pope '01 on the Tintoretto "Diana"; Professor H. Edgell on the Piero della Francesca "Crucifixion"; and on the Cassone panel, Pesellino, "Building of the Temple," and Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Professor A. Pope '01 on the Turner "Pas de Calais"; and Mr. P. J. Sachs '00 on the "Drawings by Old Masters...
...past year at the Fogg Art Museum was marked by the purchase of Sassetta's "Christ in Limbo," and of "Paris Master," a Cassoni panel, and by the gift of a collection of forty-eight Italian fourteenth-sixteenth century miniatures, and of the picture, "Madonna and Child and Two Saints," of the school of Ghirlandaio. Under the direction of Mr. Edward Waldo Forbes '95, Director of the Museum, and of Mr. Paul Joseph Sachs '00, the new Assistant Director, five important special loan exhibitions were held, 33 smaller loans of works of art were made, nine lecturers gave 31 public...
...works of art loaned and exhibited for periods ranging from one week to six months were: Tintoretto, "Diana"; Piero Della Francesca, "Crucifixion"; Pesellino, "Building of the Temple"; Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Turner, "Pas de Calais"; Byzantine panel, 13th century, "Scenes from Life of St. Peter"; Rogier van der Weyden, "Noli me tangere"; Lucas Cranach, "Lady in Red Gown"; Filippino Lippi, "Descent from the Cross"; Moretto da Brescia, "The Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa...
Finally and perhaps most important of all is the splendid "Madonna and Child" by Fra Filippo Lippi, which has been sent up from New York as a loan, for a few days only. Dr. Osvald Siren, now visiting lecturer at Harvard, has made a study of this picture and says of it: "The Fra Filippo now on exhibition in the Fogg Museum is one of the master's most interesting works. It is of unusual artistic charm and historical importance. There are, as we know, only two paintings by this master in American collections. The one is the picture formerly...