Word: bellini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...
...pictures recently acquired by the Museum--namely a Madonna and Child by the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini, and a Pleta by Carlo Criyelli--illustrate in an unusually interesting way the importance of this through technical knowledge...
...Madonne and Child by Bellini--formerly in the Crespi Collection of Milan--was sent to this country in 1923 for a New York Collection. On the way the steamer on which it had been shipped caught fire, and the painting, though not actually damaged by the flames, was apparently rained by steam, which melted and cracked the gesso ground and loosened the paint. When the picture reached its destination, small pieces of paint all over the surface were detached from the background. Although the pieces were for the most part in place, a few of them through careless handing...
...shaken a stern, denying finger at rich U. S. citizens who have tried to buy objects from the collection of Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse, Van Dyck. Unfortunately, Collector Chiesa's funds were not inexhaustible...
...That Dr. Bellini was a man of learning and attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson...