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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with a diamond-pointed pencil) and work on a life of Cosimo de' Medici...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Out of Oxford Street | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

When the Kress collection at last comes to its resting place, the National Gallery will be richer by works from the brushes of almost every important master in the Italian school: Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Filippo Lippi, Pietro di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Sam to Uncle Sam | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...priest Hsuan Tsang, carrying on his back the Holy Books that brought Buddhism to China. It is interesting and perhaps surprising that the Oriental culture display also includes an Italian painting from Fogg, in spite of the amazing treasures sent by the government of Italy. The painting is Cosimo Dura's "The Adoration of the Magi," a small, round work typical of the best done by that North Italian master. In its sculpturesque modeling and graceful dignity, the work is truly great art; and its worth may be said to typify the quality of the contribution which Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Florence, Piero di Cosimo (he took the last name in honor of his teacher, Cosimo Roselli) was well regarded but not as illustrious as his contemporaries, Botticelli and Leonardo. In later, more grandiose times, he was not even well regarded. In the 20th Century, however, the wheel of fashion has coasted around to Piero. During the last twelve months three U. S. museums have acquired works of his and last week Manhattan's Schaeffer Galleries exhibited seven altogether, including The Discovery of Honey from the Worcester Museum. There was great talk of Piero's affinities with such meticulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Florentine Revival | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Twice before this summer had the Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Toledo Selection | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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