Word: benozzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...techniques and controlled-light processing. They range in size from a 14¼-in. by 15-in. Fra Angelico (Flight Into Egypt) to a 57-ft. by 15-ft. The Journey of the Magi, one of the great treasures of the Italian Renaissance, painted in the 15th century by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Chapel. Other masterworks in the show include Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Botticelli's Madonna Magnificat, El Greco's Virgin with St. Ines and St. Tecla, and Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds...
...exploring forgotten periods and personalities in art," he says. "But along with the 'fresh' look has often come the faded flower. Our collections are blossoming out with Torbidoes instead of Titians, and the names of Bartolommeo della Gatta, Alumno de Benozzo and Cecco del Caravaggio are found on those little, unreadable labels which we persist in affixing to antique frames." University art departments are also apt to suffer from acquisitionitis-the compulsion to get something, no matter how inferior, from as many periods and schools as possible. Advises Rich: "Put the prospective acquisition next to the Goya...