Word: pintoricchio
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...cardinals themselves. They are imprisoned in an atmosphere of Renaissance marble contrasting with improvised wooden partitions, inhibited in their talks with each other and especially with their accompanying conclavists (with whom they are forbidden to discuss the balloting). Even their meals, in a temporary refectory set up amid Pintoricchio frescoes in the Borgia apartments, offer little comfort. Cracked one Vaticaner when he heard that the cardinals' cooks would be six sisters from the Order of Santa Marta: "That alone will be a great encouragement to conclude the conclave quickly...
...Pintoricchio," Professor Post, Fogg Large Room...
...Pintoricchio," Professor Post, Fogg Large Room...
...history of painting seriously cannot ignore the Italian art of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. In fact most of the greatest painters of the western world appeared during these centuries. In the Fogg Museum may now be seen works by such men as Simono Martini, Lorenzetti, Fra Angelico, Pintoricchio, Vivarini, and Tintoretto, to mention only a few. These names of earlier artists are becoming better and better known and more beloved as the knowledge of art and taste progresses in the modern world. There are also works by later masters easier to understand, as the fine portrait...
...Italian and Flemish paintings in the upper gallery, and to the collection of ancient art in the entrance hall on the ground floor. Many phases of Italian painting of the 14th and 15th centuries are illustrated in first rate examples; and there are important works by such masters as Pintoricchio, Cosimo Tura, Andrea Vanni, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Benozzo Gozzoli, Matteo da Siena and Niccolo da Foligno, names perhaps little known to most undergraduates, but of growing importance to all connoisseurs and lovers of art. The collection of original marbles includes the well known Meleager, of the type attributed to the great...
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