Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum had raised a shout of joy last January over its purchase of a 15th Century painting of Saint Sebastian. Attributed to Andrea del Castagno, and authenticated by Renaissance Expert Bernard Berenson, it was one of the best pictures the museum had acquired in years...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...Bride of Vengeance (Paramount) is a murky 15th Century brother& -sister act involving Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia (Macdonald Carey and Paulette Goddard) and Lucrezia's latest husband (John Lund). As history, it is elaborate Hollywood spoofing. As melodrama, it is constantly toppling into broad burlesque...
...Franciscans were already thinking about something else, too. The tombola was just a warmup for a bigger doing next year. Monteux calls it "a sort of celebration of my 15th year in San Francisco and my 75th year in the world...
Heil had little trouble convincing most fellow connoisseurs that it was a genuine Verrocchio, and that it belonged in the all-too-short catalogue of the 15th Century master's works. He proudly put the sculpture on display in his San Francisco museum...