OPPORTUNITY FOR CONNOISSEURS

In the upper corridor of the Fogg Art Museum is placed on temporary exhibition a painting in fresco of the Virgin of the Annunciation, probably the earliest known work of the Florentine painter Ghirlandaio. Examples of fresco are very rare in this country, and this work is very important in showing the quality of the wall painting of the great Florentine masters.

On the ground floor, the smaller side room is now devoted to a collection of textiles, loaned by Dr. Denman W. Ross '75; and the other side room to Oriental art, including a superb series of 16th and 17th century Persian miniatures.

Permanent Painting Collection.

The attention of new students in the University is also called to the permanent collection of early Italian and Flemish paintings in the upper gallery, and to the 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 the whole history of engraving on copper, and many of the finest impressions of the collection are shown.