Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets to the cathedral. At the sight the Siennese fell on their knees as all the church bells tolled. Siena's greatest masterpiece, this work marked both the end of the Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian art in the West. Most of the altarpiece is still in Siena, but two superb little panels showing a 14th Century Italian Christ resurrecting Lazarus and meeting the Samaritan woman fell into the hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who let Cleveland exhibit them last week. Said Director Milliken, "The Duccios...
...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...
...reason Cleveland was able to assemble so imposing a show was that collectors' resistance to lending their treasures had been largely broken three years ago by the art-beggars from Chicago's Century of Progress. Notable Milliken borrowings were Memling's Portrait of a Man Holding a Carnation from J. P. Morgan, a Titian and a Raphael from Paris' haughty Louvre Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland...
...essential purpose of art ... is to assist in the perfection of moral personality which is man. . . . For this reason art must itself be moral...
...perhaps on the threshold of a new art of the word...