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...University has recently received an exceedingly valuable legacy from the will of the late G. W. Harris of Boston in the shape of a diptych, representing a bishop in full pontifical robes in adoration before the Madonna and Child. This picture was painted by Rogier van der Weyden, a Flemish painter of the 15th century, and is a thoroughly characteristic and very beautiful example of the works of this early master. It will be placed in the Fogg Art Museum as soon as it can be properly and safely mounted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acquisitions to Various Museums | 10/25/1906 | See Source »

...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by the Director, Professor C. H. Moore, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received three drawings by J. M. W. Turner; four early Italian tempera paintings on panel,--a Madonna and Child with Angels, attributed to Spinello Aretino; one of the same subject, attributed to Taddeo di Bartolo; an Adoration of the Magi, presumably the work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Museum Report | 1/20/1906 | See Source »

From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received as an indefinite loan two Italian tempera pictures on panels: a "Madonna and Child" by the early Venetian master Bartolommeo Vivarini, and a "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John," by Perellino, a follower of the Florentine master, Giuchi. A number of examples of the art of the early English school of water-color painters have also been placed upon exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Art Museum Report. | 1/21/1905 | See Source »

...first hand the artistic powers of this great modern master, such as has not before existed in this country. Also from Mr. Forbes, the Museum has received a large panel in tempera, representing St. Jerome and two other figures, by Fra Filippo Lippi, and a panel of the Madonna and Child, bearing the signature of John Bellini, both of which are good examples of the schools to which they respectively belong, and both are in excellent condition. A Grecian marble statue of Narcissus, the gift of the same donor, is a worthy companion to the beautiful Meleager and Aprodite before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Art Museum Report. | 1/23/1903 | See Source »

...beautiful, and the surfaces, except in a few spots, are practically uninjured. Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 has added to the valuable collection of original works deposited by him as an indefinite loan, a large panel triptych in tempera of the Italian school of the fifteenth century, representing the Madonna and child surrounded by angels and cherubs, with a St. Sebastian on one wing and a St. Francis on the other; and a small Holy Family of the sixteenth century, in oil color, which has the characteristics of the works of Correggio. An Ionian Greek vase of the seventh century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Art Museum Report. | 1/18/1902 | See Source »

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