Word: paolo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book, calls Mrs. Gardner's "the choicest collection of art in America". It includes Raphael's Portrait of Fedra Inghirami, the "Rape of Europe," by Titian, called by Rubens "the first picture in the world," and best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America so many objects...
...special loan exhibition of rare and valuable Italian paintings will be opened at the Fogg Art Museum today, and will last for two weeks. Among the pictures are an Umbrian Madonna by Lorenzo di San Severino; a profile portrait by Paolo Uccello; a picture of the Madonna and Child by Fra Angelico; an unfinished Madonna by Pinturicchio; a head of St. Catharine; a picture attributed to Perugino and some pictures representing the early Florentine, Sienese and Venetian schools...
...painters of the 16th century. The other two pictures are Sienese works of the 15th century. One is a Madonna and Child, painted by Francesco di Giorgio, and a charming illustration of his dainty manner. The other is a painting of St. John the Baptist, attributed to Giovanni di Paolo...
...accused of unnecessary harshness in the execution of certain of the punishments. But he is merely trying to express his opinion that some sinners are so base that they should suffer the fullness of their punishments. In the instance of the punishment of the lovers, Francesca di Rimini and Paolo, however, Dante pronounces his verdict on love in the somewhat later form. "I could not love thee half so much, loved I not honor more." And, yet, Dante adds to this his belief that hearts that are once joined in true love can never be rent asunder...