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...foreground of the painting is the fainting Madonna, supported by one of the three Marys, and in the group of figures near her stand the Magdalen, who gazes at the figure of the Saviour on the cross, and St. John, weeping, his head resting on his folded hands. At the right and left of the cross are soldiers on horseback bearing a red standard on which are the letters...
...York on Sunday before two large congregations which filled the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to capacity, and in both cases crowds almost as large as the audiences themselves were turned away long before the service began. The Archbishop is a Fellow and Dean of Divinity of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was honorable chaplain to Queen Victoria. He was appointed to his present high position of Archbishop of York...
...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 Croce, "Portrait of a Man"; Nicholas Maes, "Portrait of a Man"; Rubens, "Meleager and Atalanta"; Nicholas Maes, "The Lace-Maker"; Jacobella...
...Italian and two Flemish paintings have just been placed on exhibition in the main gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The Italian picture is called "The Magdalen" and is the work of the distinguished provincial artist, Alessandro Bonvicino (1498-1554), called Moretto da Brescia. This picture is particularly interesting because it suggests certain Venetian types and at the same time illustrates so well a technical quality that marks the difference between the Venetian and Brescian art of the High Renaissance. Hero, as in so many of the best examples of the art of Brescia, there is harmony of cool silvery...
...student of early Italian art, will give the sixth of his series of twelve lectures on "Giotto and His Followers" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of today's lecture will be "The Frescoes in the Magdalen Chapel and the Nicolaus Chapel in the Lower Church, Assisi." These lectures are open to the public...