Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to the large collection of valuable books which have recently been presented to the University in honor of the centenary today of Charles Eliot Norton, a new and magnificent gift of old Italian paintings from E. W. Forbes '95, director of the Fogg Museum and Professor P. J. Sachs '00 has just been announced...
Many years ago, Mr. Forbes gave in trust to the University two well-known paintings now in the Museum,--a large alter-piece by Benvenuto di Giovanni, "Madonna Enthroned with Saints," and a triptych by Niccolo Da Foligno, "Madonna Enthroned between Saint Sebastin and Saint Francis." In celebration of the Norton centenary he now gives both of these pictures outright to the Fogg Museum, one in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, his teacher, the other in memory of Richard Norton, son of Professor Norton and friend of Mr. Forbes...
Professor Sachs announces at the same time his gift to the Museum in memory of Norton's sister, Miss Grace Norton, of an Italian fourteenth century painting, "Mourning Over the Body of Christ...
...second of Professor Adoph Goldschmidt's lectures given in German on German Architecture will be given this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Old Fogg Museum, instead of in the Germanic Museum as originally planned...
...Arts as connected with Literature," the University, as in the case of most other American universities, made little organized effort to teach either practice in or appreciation of art. That year marked the beginning of a program which was culminated this year in the opening of the New Fogg Museum With Mr. Norton giving a course in the history of fine arts--a course which, it is to be noted, still subordinates art to its relations with literature--and with another course being given in principles of design, the future of the study of the Fine Arts in Harvard University...