Word: temperament
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by the Director, Professor C. H. Moore, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received 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...
From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received as an indefinite loan two Italian tempera pictures on panels: a "Madonna and Child" by the early Venetian master Bartolommeo Vivarini, and a "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John," by Perellino, a follower of the Florentine master, Giuchi. A number of examples of the art of the early English school of water-color painters have also been placed upon exhibition...
...color lately acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, have afforded an opportunity to study at first hand the artistic powers of this great modern master, such as has not before existed in this country. Also from Mr. Forbes, the Museum has received a large panel in tempera, representing St. Jerome and two other figures, by Fra Filippo Lippi, and a panel of the Madonna and Child, bearing the signature of John Bellini, both of which are good examples of the schools to which they respectively belong, and both are in excellent condition. A Grecian marble statue of Narcissus...
...good condition. The modelling of the body is extremely refined and beautiful, and the surfaces, except in a few spots, are practically uninjured. Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 has added to the valuable collection of original works deposited by him as an indefinite loan, a large panel triptych in tempera of the Italian school of the fifteenth century, representing the Madonna and child surrounded by angels and cherubs, with a St. Sebastian on one wing and a St. Francis on the other; and a small Holy Family of the sixteenth century, in oil color, which has the characteristics...
...Fogg Museum has lately received the following important accessions of original works: a marble statue of Aphrodite of fine later Greek workmanship, presented by members of the class of '95; a large panel triptych in tempera of the Italian school of the fifteenth century, and a small painting in oil color having the characteristics of the work of Correggio, both of which are deposited as an indefinite loan by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95; and an Ionian Greek vase of the seventh century, B.C., presented by Mr. C. F. Murray, of London. These works will be all on view shortly...