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...Institute of Arts is one of the nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...
...critics were less spontaneous: they wrote columns about "influences" they thought they saw in Grandma Moses' 50 oils (which owe their greatest debt to the prints of Currier & Ives). One critic spoke of Renoir and the "early moderns"; a second of Flemish miniatures and Bruegel's landscapes. Anyway, said another, "there's something [in Grandma Moses] for everyone to enjoy, whatever their approach...
...Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel...
...Like Bruegel's work, Resurrection is rich in anecdote. Among other things, it shows a sailor greeting his girl, a crowd raising a tombstone, children reading inscriptions, old folks on all fours, a group gazing ecstatically heavenward, and a plump gravedigger, his work done, surveying the whole scene. Last week Resurrection earned a wide and rather startled audience; London's popular press wrote the painting up as "the picture of the year...
This week the De Young Museum put the Bellini Doge on display along with the Verrocchio boy and a picture of Christ and the Magdalen, painted in collaboration by Flemish Masters Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Bruegel the Elder, which Heil also bought cheap from a Canadian dealer last spring. The three works of art had cost the museum less than $10,000; the museum put their combined value...