Word: michael
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...photographs of the masterpieces of various artists, which for the past year have hung in the upper room in the Fogg Art Museum have all, with the exception of those of Michael Angelo, been taken down and others substituted in their places. Those which have been on exhibition are now placed in the cabinets with the remainder of the collection, where they may still be seen by those desiring to make a study of such subjects. The collection now numbers about fifteen thousand, and it is intended, for the sake of variety, to change those on exhibition each year...
Many new acquisitions are now on the road for the museum, chief among which is a cast of Michael Angelo's famous "Madonna and Child," in the Church of S. Lorenzo in Florence. Among other things which are expected is a collection of between one thousand and fifteen hundred photographs, illustrating architecture and sculpture in Southern Italy and Sicily. A collection of photographs illustrating the Dutch school of painting is also...
...plaster cast of the "Pieta," by Michael Angelo, the original of which is in St. Peter's at Rome, has also been received recently...
...latest acquistion to the Fogg Museum is a fine cast of the Pieta of St. Peters in Rome by Michael Angelo. This cast is now on view in the Michael Angelo room, and near it is hung a large carbon photograph taken from the marble. From the two a very just idea of this important early work by the great master may be obtained...
...fills a long felt want in the fine arts department, is continually being added to. Out of the money appropriated for the purpose, during the past two weeks, beside several photographs, the following figures have been purchased: Nike, Archer, Figure of a Youth, Mounted Nereid, and a group by Michael Angelo that has not been...