Word: madonna
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...most important of these is an original Florentine "tabernaculo," which has the characteristics of Filippo Lippi. It is a beautiful example of Florentine painting at its best, in the fifteenth century, and is painted in tempera on panels, the middle one representing the Madonna and Child...
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...
...paintings are: A Florentine Tabernacle, a really fine work in the time of the close of the 15th century, a portrait of a Procurator of St. Mark having the characteristics of the work of Tintoretto, A Madonna and child with saints by Benvenuto di Giovanni (Del Guasta), a Vienese painter of the 15th century, and an Adorazione of the school of Ferrara; perhaps by Lorenzo Costa...
...cast of the Madonna of St. Lorenzo, Florence, has just been set up in the Fogg Art Museum. The cast was made in Paris and is a copy of Michael Angelo's finest Madonna. This is the only one in Boston, and probably the only one in the country...
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...