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The recovery of the long buried art treasures, the forma- 

 tions of collections of ancient gems and marbles, by the 

 Medici and their contemporaries, the passionate love of 

 the antique in all forms which distinguished the Rennais- 

 sauce period, then combined to produce a golden age, 

 which found its chief centre at Florence. Here Brun- 

 elleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello and Masaccio lived and 

 worked, and produced masterpieces of architecture, sculp- 

 ture and painting. These artists shed a lustre upon the 

 reign of Cosmo de Medici, as did Leonardo de Vinci and 

 Fra Bartolomeo and Michel Angelo upon that of Lorenzo 

 the Magnificent. 



To Michel Angelo and Raphael, in whom the glories 

 of Italian art culminated, the lecturer could only allude 

 in the brief time at his disposal, but he concluded with an 

 offer to speak of them at fitting length at some future 

 time, if desired. 



Many of the illustrations were of the world famous 

 pictures, statues, frescoes, bronzes, sarcophagi, etc., in 

 the renowned art museums, churches and other deposi- 

 tories of art in Italy and Germany, and were very per- 

 fectly presented by the aid of the calcium light under the 

 skilful manipulation of Mr. J. W. Black, of Boston. 

 The progress of art from the earlier of the great masters 

 to Raphael and his compeers were traced very instruc- 

 tively, and the characteristic differences of the masters 

 of the several schools and periods were briefly but com- 

 prehensively described. 



Adjourned. 



