Word: correggio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught her inspiration from the floating, luminous figures of Correggio. "Maternity," "The Bath," "Mother's Cares," "Breakfast in Bed," "Children Playing with a Cat," are titles that more befit memorial calendars than good paintings. Critics have hinted that Miss Cassatt might have painted better if she had been married; maternity would then have had less fascination for her. This...
...style sustained an immediate and vast improvement; she lost the literary quality that had impaired her early efforts and began to work more blandly. She still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures. Very few are privately owned-only those which she put on sale in March...
...distance. Which shall I ascend? In other words, shall. I at 11 o'clock go to Sever 35 to hear Dr. Maynadier in English 29 speak on George Meredith; shall I turn my steps to the Fogg Museum to listen to Mr. Leonard Opdyche in Fine Arts 1d on Correggio and the early Venetian school, which of all schools of Italian painting I am most partial to, or shall I hear Professor Haskins in History 8 speak at Harvard 3 of St. Louis the heroic crusading ruler of mediaeval France...
...Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse, Van Dyck. Unfortunately, Collector Chiesa's funds were not inexhaustible. He ordered more than he could pay for. His collection, like that of the late Lord Leverhulme, will...
Leda (Newking),a lady who has been painted by Paul Veronese, Correggio and Michael Angelo, bends in heroic contemplation of a swan as sturdy as a duck...