Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...early Italian tempera paintings on panel,--a Madonna and Child with Angels, attributed to Spinello Aretino; one of the same subject, attributed to Taddeo di Bartolo; an Adoration of the Magi, presumably the work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano, a Roman painter of the sixteenth century. In addition to these Mr. Forbes has sent two ancient marble heads, and an ancient Greek marble grave relief. From Mr. James Loeb have been received a collection of fragments of Arretine moulds, including specimens...
...designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles of engravings by James Ward and William Ward; a portrait of President Eliot, etched by Sidney L. Smith; a portrait of Elias Boudinot, by Waldo and Jewett, engraved by A. D. Durand; a portrait of Sir Leslie Stephen, by G. A. Watts, reproduced in photogravure; etchings by Bartolomineo Pinelli, the gift of Professor C. E. Norton; and two prints...
There have recently been put on exhibition at the Fogg Museum, through the kindness of E. W. Forbes '95, a number of early Italian paintings and ancient marbles. These include "Mandonna with Angels," by Taddeo di Bartolo; "Portrait of a Cardinal," by Scipio Gaetano; "Adoration of the Magi," probably by Cosimo Tura; and "St. Jerome," by Matteo da Siena. The three new marbles are an Attic gravestone of the fourth century, and two female heads of a late period. The seven original Greek sculptures, already on exhibition, have been grouped in the east end of the room in a more...
...Eliot. He has spent most of the winter with his family at Chateau d'Oex in Switzerland. During March he took a two-weeks trip to Venice and Florence. Just before sailing President Eliot's spent a fortnight in London, where he sat to John S. Sargent for his portrait. The portrait is to be the gift of the graduates of the University in commemoration of President Eliot's seventieth birthday. The painting will be completed in a few weeks, when it will be sent here from London...
...class of 1883 has arranged to present the university with a portrait bust of James Russell Lowell '38, to be designed by Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the statue of "The Minte Man" at Concord. The bust, which will be completed before Commencement, will be placed in a niche i the north wall of Massachusetts Hall...