Word: conegliano
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...unknown artist dating from 1515. The altarpiece depicts the Virgin and Child occupied in a sacred conversation with saints, a “sacra conversazione.” With the paintings soft colors and sense of space, its former attribution to Renaissance masters such as Bellini and Conegliano is hardly surprising...
Priest to Poet. He was born (1749) in the Venetian town of Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto). His parents were Jews; his original name was Emanuele Conegliano. But his father changed the family faith, and Emanuele took the names of his baptizer. Bishop Lorenzo da Ponte. Aided by the bishop. Da Ponte became a Roman Catholic deacon...
...catholic assemblage of paintings with just one thing in common: none needed special advertising; all were eminently salable-for the proper price. They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont...
Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...
...photographs from works of art of the German, Dutch, and Flemish schools, which have lately been displayed on the walls of the upper gallery of the Fogg Museum, have just been replaced by others, illustrating the early Venetian school. Such masters as the Vivarini, the Bellini, Carpaccio, Cinia da Conegliano and others are represented...
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