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...Italian and two Flemish 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...
...left, a buoy floating on the crest of the wave and a group of small boats in the middle distance are balanced by a single sailboat and the pier and city of Calais, seen in the extreme distance at the right. The near point of view chosen by the artist permits of every detail in the two boats, which form the central subject of the picture, being clearly delineated. The larger one, seen from fore to aft, is lifted up on the crest of a wave surging against her side; the passengers and seamen crowding on the deck are painted...
...only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle as the author intends it to be. If the latter added more humor to his other gifts,--the reaction to color, feeling for childhood, and sense of atmosphere,--he would be a better artist...
...deliver the eighth of his series of lectures on "Giotto and His Followers" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The title of the lecture will be "The Frescoes in Santa Chiara at Assisi and Other Works by the Same Artist. Taddeo Gaddi." These lectures are open to the public...
...Lecture. "Giotto and His Followers." VIII. "The Frescoes in Santa Chiara at Assisi and other Works by the same Artist. Taddeo Gaddi," Dr. Osvald Siren, lecture room, Fogg Art Museum...