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...galley which will take a central part in the Technology pageant has reached Boston and is now anchored in the Charles River Basin. It is named the Bucentaur and is patterned after the stately Venetian galleys of old. It was built expressly to take part in the water festival in connection with the opening of the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings next Wednesday...
...Venetian pictures have also been received as loans. Mr. Goldman has loaned a Portrait of a Young Man, attributed to Girolamo da Santa Croce, one of the pupils of Bellini. This picture was exhibited in the Fogg Museum in the loan exhibition of Italian paintings a year ago. It is an excellent example of Venetian portrait painting of that time. The second Venetian picture is the beautiful unfinished Diana by Tintoretto, once in the collection of Ruskin, which was loaned to the Fogg Museum earlier this year...
...musical numbers of "The White Elephant" are singularly good this year. Features of the musical program are "Come Back to Yokahoma Bay," written by S. P. Sears '17, which will be sung by O. G. Kirkpatrick '17, and "Venetian Melody," sung by a quartet composed of O. G. Kirkpatrick '17, F. H. Cabot '17, C. H. Hodges '17, and E. Douglas...
...paintings have just been placed on exhibition in the main gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The Italian picture is called "The Magdalen" and is the work of the distinguished provincial artist, Alessandro Bonvicino (1498-1554), called Moretto da Brescia. This picture is particularly interesting because it suggests certain Venetian types and at the same time illustrates so well a technical quality that marks the difference between the Venetian and Brescian art of the High Renaissance. Hero, as in so many of the best examples of the art of Brescia, there is harmony of cool silvery color...
...whole group is a product of the Aldine Press. It is also the oldest, its date being 1501. Aldus Pius Manutius was a Venetian and did some of the most excellent work of any of the earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...