Old Japanese Paintings in Fogg

Seven Japanese paintings are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, four of which are loaned to be Museum by Mrs. John T. Linzee and three by Dr. Denman W. Ross. They are the work of the Tosa school, and date from about 1480. The paintings are in gold and color on paper, and represent scenes in the court life of that time. They are very refined in workmanship and are unusually effective and rich in color and design.

Two primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer on the history of architecture at Yale are also on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. One is a picture of St. Michael by Byzantine-Gothte Guariento, 1338-68, of Padua, and the other of the Madonna and child in a dark architectural framework by Gregorio Schiavone, 1440-1470, a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione. The latter picture has been shown recently in the exhibition of Italian Primitives at the Kleinberger Galleries, New York.