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...Shipped to Rome's Restoration Institute, the painting has been carefully worked over for the past seven months. The Madonna which emerged, with amaranth-red robe, gilt-edged blue veil and glittering gold medallion is judged by critics the finest Martini oil painting known. Nonagenarian Renaissance Critic Bernard Berenson, who once called Martini "the most lovable of all the Italian artists before the Renaissance," said of the discovery: "It is certainly a masterpiece. And there is not the slightest doubt that it is an authentic Simone Martini...
Last week Peggy Guggenheim moved to keep it that way, and by so doing dashed the hopes of museum directors round the world. After long pondering the future of her collection (she once offered to will it to famed Renaissance Specialist Bernard Berenson, now 92, and was laughingly refused), Peggy called in her attorneys to set up a foundation that would permanently preserve her palazzo collection, thus in effect bequeathing it to the Venetians...
Starting with review by the editor of Atlantic's impressive past, in which the mystical names of James Russell Lowell, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...
...authors, however, are so novel, and in reality Slichter and Frost are reworking old themes, and doing their jobs well. Osbert Sitwell keeps up his barrage of family anecdotes; Bernard Berenson analyzes another family topic--Bernard Berenson; Beerbohm revives the Victorians; and Marquand traces his genealogy and that of New England. All is as it was--fluent, powerful in spots, and not disturbing...
Jung and Jones should be only the beginning. Meaney and Evans now hope to film such great masters as T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee and Bernard Berenson. Says Evans dreamily: "Suppose we had had this thing in the 16th century. Why, we could have had Shakespeare. Even more recently, what a boon it would have been to have had Einstein explain relativity...