"RAPE OF DEIANIRA" LENT TO FOGG MUSEUM

Yale has loaned to Harvard an extremely fine painting by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a Florentine painter of the high Renaissance whose canvasses later influenced the style of Michel Angelo, it was made public yesterday. The masterpiece will be exhibited at the opening of the new Fogg Museum of Art on next Monday, and will remain there throughout the summer months, while the new Yale Museum is being built.

The painting will be of especial interest in connection with the exhibit of an original painting by Pollaiuolo in the Museum. This is one of the seven extant drawings by the Italian master of the 15th century.

Entitled "The Rape of Deianira"

Antonio Pollaiuolo's painting to be exhibited in the Fogg Museum is entitled. "The Rape of Deianira." The description of the painting in the Catalogue of the Yale Jarves Collection is as follows:

"The centaur Nessus is galloping through a stream with Deianira on his back. He is holding with both hands the frightened woman, whose transparent white garments flutter in the wind. She is wrestling to get free from the grip of the centaur. To the right on the shore stands Hercules, stretching his bow ready to send an arrwo into the centaur. He is a nude athlete with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno valley closed in by high mountains. The city in the middle distance is evidently meant to represent Florence, and some of the characteristic buildings, like the Duomo and the Campanile, are perfectly distinguishable. The landscape has a drark brownish tone, in which the river appears as a light winding path. The sky is light bluish green.