Word: botticelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Philip Adams of the Cincinnati Art Museum made a gleeful announcement last week. "For peanuts," he said, he had picked up in Florence, Italy a painting that turned out to be a genuine Botticelli. which he values at $80,000. The picture was a smaller (11½ in. by 8½ in.) version of Botticelli's great Judith, which hangs in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Adams guessed his painting to be one of the master's preparatory studies of the subject. Cleaning at Cincinnati had corrected some "bungling repairs," made Judith's head look less...
Italy, of course, has the world's foremost Botticelli experts. When the big news was flashed to Florence, it drew a dry laugh from the city's superintendent of fine arts, Filippo Rossi. "The picture," said Rossi flatly, "is catalogued here as a copy by an unknown student...
...Carpaccio, Lorenzo. As the orchestra tunes up for the Capulets' ball, five little boys step up to sing, and suddenly are grouped, in lovely archaic rhythm, as a choir of cherubs in Raphael's style. Juliet, in the scene where she first sees Romeo, is dressed like Botticelli's Flora, and the lines of her head and neck might be a tracing from Veneziano's Portrait of a Young Lady...
...collection was started by his father, the late Financier Philip Lehman in 1911, is resplendent with Italian primitives and notable examples of the work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini shows a poignantly pensive Mary in a rich, blue robe, supporting a standing Infant Christ; the other, called The Rest on the Flight...
...breasts to suggest personality. There was a beautiful, grave head of his wife, Margaret, a hollow-eyed, haunted Louise, a brazen, thick-lipped Isabel. His most recent was Elizabeth, and it showed Epstein at his peak: a silver head of a young woman with the air of one of Botticelli's beauties. "It is odd," mused the News Chronicle, "that the sculptor has suffered the odium of being called a modern. He is so clearly an ancient...