A most important and beautiful painting by the great 16th century master, Tintoretto, has just been placed on exhibition, as a loan, in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The picture, the subject of which is "Diana," comes close to the series of smaller mythological subjects, each with a few figures arranged in a single plane against a landscape background, the best known of which form the decoration of one of the rooms in the Ducal Palace in Venice. Like them, the picture at the Fogg Museum, although extremely simple in its expression, is masterly in design, and it exhibits the extraordinary skill in direct handling, which makes Tintoretto perhaps the most brilliant of the Venetian painters.

From the standpoint of the student of painting, the picture possesses the additional interest of being unfinished, so that the whole Venetian method of painting from the dark ground tone up to the last glaze is clearly revealed. There is probably no other painting by Tintoretto in this country, which so completely suggests the quality of his work in the Ducal Palace and San Rocco, in Venice.

Professor A. Pope '01 will give a conference on the picture Monday at 4 o'clock.