Word: angelico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Kress collection at last comes to its resting place, the National Gallery will be richer by works from the brushes of almost every important master in the Italian school: Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Filippo Lippi, Pietro di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini...
...Siena declined in art and war, Florence grew great. Transition painter in Cleveland's show is Lorenzo Monaco, Siena-born, Florence-bred. He was followed by a virile stampede of topnotch Florentine painters : Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Andrea del Castagno, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking...
...until twelve hours later, as a Sunday afternoon guard took up his post on the fourth floor was one of the most amazing museum robberies of modern times discovered. Most valuable of the ten stolen paintings were an "Annunciation" by Fra Angelico, a "Christ's Ascension" by Peter Paul Rubens. Most embarrassing loss was a "Judith" by Lucas Cranach, lent to the Museum by Sculptor Carl Milles. The other seven were a Rogier van der Weyden, a Sir Thomas Lawrence, a Romney. Van Dyck, Jean Fouquet. Francois Clouet and Bernardino Luini. Eight were from the Friedsam collection...
...Angelico," Prof. Post, Fogg Large Room...
...Angelico," Prof. Post, Fogg Large Room...