Word: sano
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo, the son of a tinman of Borgo San Sepolcro who settled in Siena, was born about 1435. He was considered the best Sienese painter of his time and may be said to have adopted the manner of Sano di Pietro and improved it by modernizing it. His ablest authentic picture, "The Virgin Entroned with Angeles" (1470) is in the Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject...
Among the Italian masters shown are Sano di Pietro, Filippino Lippi, Perugino, Spinallo Aretino, Parmigiano, Vivarini, Carpaccio, Domenico Campagnola, and Bartolomeo Montagna. The exhibition contains two sketches by Raphael, one by Benvenuto Cellini, and four by Michelangelo...
...Mens sana in corpore sano"--or, as the translators will have it. "A sound mind in a sound body"--is a much-slighted adage during the mid-year period. It is disagreeable weather; and fourteen hours of tinkering the mind to a state of pseudo-soundness, seems to please us better than thirteen hours on the mind and one on the body, which more closely follows the wisdom of the adage. To fulfill the sound body there is an excellent and informal exercising class, open to all, previous experience unnecessary, in the Gymnasium daily at 5 o'clock. It requires...
...late Professor Charles Eliot Norton, four paintings, which are now on exhibition there. A watercolor, entitled "Before the Battle," by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is a brilliant and beautiful piece of color, and a very interesting example of his art. There are also a Madonna and Child, by Sano di Pietro; a Venetian scene, by Gubardi, and "Risen Christ," by William Blake...
...late Professor Charles Eliot Norton four paintings which are now on exhibition there. A water-color, entitled "Before the Battle," by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, is a brilliant and beautiful piece of color, and very interesting example of his art. There are also a "Madonna and Child," by Sano di Pietro, a "Venetian Scene," by Guardi, and "Risen Christ," by William Blake...