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...columns and now on loan at the Fogg Museum, that institution has also received as a loan from the Messrs. Duveen in New York a well-preserved tempera painting on panel of the "Virgin and Child," an Italian work of art of the 15th century by the Sienese painter, Matteo di Giovann di Bartolo, called Matteo di Siena (1435 1495). This important picture was formerly in the collection of Sir Philip Burne-Jones...
...Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo, the son of a tinman of Borgo San Sepolcro who settled in Siena, was born about 1435. He was considered the best Sienese painter of his time and may be said to have adopted the manner of Sano di Pietro and improved it by modernizing it. His ablest authentic picture, "The Virgin Entroned with Angeles" (1470) is in the Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject...
...collection of ancient art in the entrance hall on the ground floor. Many phases of Italian painting of the 14th and 15th centuries are illustrated in first rate examples; and there are important works by such masters as Pintoricchio, Cosimo Tura, Andrea Vanni, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Benozzo Gozzoli, Matteo da Siena and Niccolo da Foligno, names perhaps little known to most undergraduates, but of growing importance to all connoisseurs and lovers of art. The collection of original marbles includes the well known Meleager, of the type attributed to the great sculptor Scopas. In the Print Room is an exhibition illustrating...
...three drawings by J. M. W. Turner; four early Italian tempera paintings on panel,--a Madonna and Child with Angels, attributed to Spinello Aretino; one of the same subject, attributed to Taddeo di Bartolo; an Adoration of the Magi, presumably the work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano, a Roman painter of the sixteenth century. In addition to these Mr. Forbes has sent two ancient marble heads, and an ancient Greek marble grave relief. From Mr. James Loeb have been received a collection...
...Fogg Museum, through the kindness of E. W. Forbes '95, a number of early Italian paintings and ancient marbles. These include "Mandonna with Angels," by Taddeo di Bartolo; "Portrait of a Cardinal," by Scipio Gaetano; "Adoration of the Magi," probably by Cosimo Tura; and "St. Jerome," by Matteo da Siena. The three new marbles are an Attic gravestone of the fourth century, and two female heads of a late period. The seven original Greek sculptures, already on exhibition, have been grouped in the east end of the room in a more suitable light...