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...most important and beautiful painting by the great 16th century master, Tintoretto, has just been placed on exhibition, as a loan, in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The picture, the subject of which is "Diana," comes close to the series of smaller mythological subjects, each with a few figures arranged in a single plane against a landscape background, the best known of which form the decoration of one of the rooms in the Ducal Palace in Venice. Like them, the picture at the Fogg Museum, although extremely simple in its expression, is masterly in design, and it exhibits...
From the standpoint of the student of painting, the picture possesses the additional interest of being unfinished, so that the whole Venetian method of painting from the dark ground tone up to the last glaze is clearly revealed. There is probably no other painting by Tintoretto in this country, which so completely suggests the quality of his work in the Ducal Palace and San Rocco, in Venice...
...fine Madonna and Child attributed to Ghirlandaio has been received from Radcliffe College. There are also seven paintings which formerly belonged to Professor Norton, which have been loaned by the Misses Norton. Two of these have been attributed to Tintoretto: one is a large painting of a woman playing a lute and the other is a portrait. A large painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds, perhaps by Bonifazio Veneziano, is a good example of Venetian color. There are three other Venetian portraits and an early Siennese Madonna and Child with saints by Sano di Pietro. An attractive little Annunciation...
Next in importance is an original Venetian painting in oils, characteristic of the work of Tintoretto. It is a protrait of a procurator of St. Mark's, in his senatorial robes...
Among the recent acquisitions of the Fogg Museum are three original paintings which were presented by Mr. Forbes. One of them is a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, the subject of which is unknown. There is an early Italian Madonna of the Fifteenth Century, and another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection...