The Fogg Art Museum.

The Fogg Art Museum has acquired this year three very valuable old Italian paintings, all of which are in perfect conditions.

The 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.

Next in importance is an original Venetian painting in oils, characteristic of the work of Tintoretto. It is a protrait of a procurator of St. Mark's, in his senatorial robes.

The third, like the first, is painted in tempera, and is an original of the school of Ferarra, representing the adoration of the Magi. It may have been painted by Lorenzo de Costa, who was an important master of Ferarra's school.

A fact which makes these three paintings of especial interest is that very few specimens of old Italian art have been brought to this country.