FRIEDLANDER SPEAKS TODAY ON ITALIAN ART

Sponsored by the Fogg Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Arts, Dr. Walter Friedlander will speak this afternoon at three o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Art Museum. Friedlander, who will speak on the subject of "Florentine Mannerism," was formerly Professor of the History of Art at the University of Frieburg in Germany.

He has been trained in linguistic and philological subjects and has spent his life lecturing at Frieburg and undertaking scientific research in the galleries of Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and other countries.

Left Germany in 1933

He became director of the Kunsthistoriches Institute in 1932, but left Germany late in 1933. He is now visiting professor of Fine Arts at New York University.

His specialty is the art of the modern world with particular inquiry into the genesis and developments of various periods since the Renaissance.