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...deposits are increasing yearly. The Belgian bank discount rate is 2¼% as compared with 8% for Germany, 4¼% for Britain. Exports almost equal imports. There are only 62,000 unemployed. Antwerp shipping increases yearly, and the city's skyline, almost unchanged since the days of Pieter Breughel and Jan van Eyck, is now stabbed by an up-to-date portentous 20-story skyscraper. The gold coverage of Belgian banknotes is at the proud level...
...also contributing two seventeenth-century flower paintings showing the Dutch tradition as practiced in England and France. Arthur Edwin Bye, of Philadelphia, is lending both a monumental Van Huysum and a canvas of unusual historic interest, containing a medallion by Van Dyck enclosed in a flower wreath by "Velvet" Breughel...
...case with the drawings of the weignty School of Michelangelo. We believe that the good humor is carried through the entire exhibition, through the chiaroscurists Guardi, Tiepolo, Poussin, and Rembrandt, through the lyricism of Corot, through the tortures of Grnenewald, to culminate in pure humer in Breughel. Pisanelio may seem, at first thought, to be purely nonsensical, but with longer inspection of these drawings, it will be found that his nonsense becomes mingled more and more with passionate reality until it fixes itself in admirable concentration and observation. The other artists represented are Holbein, Fragonard, Delacroix, Watteau, Canaletto, and Duerer...
Twenty facsimile reproductions of Flemish and Dutch paintings, from the van Eycks to the elder Breughel have been given by Mr. H. W. Putnam. These reproductions are in the size of the originals and are strikingly like them in color scheme. They were published under the guidance of Professor Pol de Mont, director of the Royal Museum at Antwerp. Among them are such masterpieces as Hubert van Eyck's "Madonna in a Church," Jan van Eyck's Triptych of the "Madonna with St. Michael and St. Katherine," Rogier van der Weyden's "young Patrician Lady," and Quenten Metsys's "Mary...