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Word: albergati (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shorewood. $4.95. Drawing, it has been remarked, is the art of omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself to the 15th to 19th centuries. The subjects in both books range from rustic landscapes to architectural fantasies, from figure studies to exquisite faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GIFT BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

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