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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Zoological Club. Review: "The Origin and Nature of Life." Mr. Lawrence Irving. "Circus Movements in a Bermuda Gastropol." Mr. D. E. Minnich, Zoological Museum...
...Conference on the Gentile da Fabriano panel. Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Fogg Art Museum...
There is on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum for a few days a painting on panel by Gentile de Fabriano, representing the Madonno, seated with the Christ-child. It is a singularly beautiful work by a rare master of the school now called "International," and it is hoped that it may be secured for the University. In 1876 it was exhibited in the Royal Academy. Its rich, deep reds and blues against a gold background make of it a striking bit of decoration, as well as a very great work...
Professor Edgell will give a conference on this picture next Tuesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The Fogg Museum gives the following account of Gentile's life and work. "Gentile was an Umbrian artist who was subjected at various times to different influences. At first he felt the Byzantine and Gothic, and later was influenced by Florentine naturalism and Sienese refinement. He was a good story teller and better still, was a poet. He influenced not only Umbrian masters, but the painters of the Marches, Venice and North Italy. In 1423 he painted his most famous work, the "Epiphany...
...Geological Conference. "Clift Islands in the Coral Seas," by Professor W. M. Davis. "The Geology of Pigeon Point, Minn.," by Professor Daly. Mineralogy Lecture Room, University Museum...