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...mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings are as exquisitely realized, in detail and in the round, as the Met's ivory Bini mask of a Nigerian ruler; and the technical finesse of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, brought back by the conquistadors from South America, astonished Albrecht Dürer in the 16th century as much as it does us today...
Margaret Page Albrecht Cambridge, Mass...
...friend recognized the paintings in a book on artwork that had been lost or destroyed in Germany during World War II. Soon the finding was authenticated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the paintings were 1499 portraits of a Nuremberg couple, Hans and Felicitas Tucher, by the German master Albrecht Dürer. They had disappeared in 1945 from safe-keeping at Schwarzburg Castle near Weimar during the American occupation. By 1969 Eliçofon was embroiled in a fierce custody battle for the Dürers that was to involve several claimants and stretch over a dozen years...
...myth of Italy presides over this show, as it must over any account of 19th century German culture. The reasons are many, but they grow from one stem: Italy offered German artists both sensuous fulfillment and an integral, traditional discipline-as it had, centuries earlier, to their national hero Albrecht Dürer. The luxury lay in nature, the stringency in culture. Goethe's "land where lemons flower" provided its Northern enthusiasts with an inexhaustible supply of prototypes and themes, marmoreal fragments of the Roman past and painted lessons from the Renaissance...
...special thing about the place is that it really tries to treat the women as individuals, rather than just bringing them in and shoving them down and giving them something to eat. The people there sit and talk to them," Karen L. Albrecht '81, drive chairman, said yesterday...