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...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
...tool of these people. At any rate, when Karolyi and some of his ministers appeared before General Franchet d'Esperey at Belgrade to negotiate armistice terms, the Allied Generalissimo looked scornfully at them and said: "Vous etes juifs?" Turning to Karolyi he said: "Vous etes tombes si bas?" Then turning on his heel he left them, declining to negotiate terms of an armistice for Hungary. That was the impression which the Ministers of Hungary made. After this it appeares that Karolyi was unable, or did not try, to do anything for Hungary. Disaster followed disaster until, on March...
Just as European tradition has curbed any distinctly American phase in Art, so has the recent interest in Egyptian treasure held attention from valuable discoveries of ancient Mexican work. Friezes, bas reliefs, curious pottery and many other Mayan and Aztec antiquities collected by Francisco Cornejo are to be brought to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum...
...only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...
...addition to a loan of a number of photographs the Fogg Art Museum has also loaned the Union four bas-reliefts. These will be hung under the four arches in the entrance hall...