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...Recitative and Aria, "Hear me! Ye Winds and Waves," from the opera Scipio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND OPERATIC CONCERT | 1/30/1912 | See Source »

...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 of the ware, and three early Greek tripods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Museum Report | 1/20/1906 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Italian Paintings at Fogg Museum | 12/14/1905 | See Source »

...window has been designed by Mrs. Whitman who was also the designer of the large window in the transept of Memorial. The subject is a classical one, the young Cornelius Scipio being the ideal instance in both panels. In the first panel he is represented as going to battle, an angel sending him forth; and in the second, returning, kneeling before the angel, with his shield and the two spears of victory. In the base of the first panel is written the word "Honor" and in the second, "Pax." Above the two panels in the small triangular lancet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Memorial Window. | 5/28/1900 | See Source »

...remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

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