Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy without a copy of one of the blue and white Delia Robbia bambini which decorate the façade of the Florentine Foundling Hospital. Their designer was not Cleveland's Luca Delia Robbia (1400-82), but his prolific nephew, Andrea. Luca, however, perfected the enamel-coated terra cotta ware of which they are made. A suave sculptor, he lacked the virility of his great contemporaries (Verrocchio, Donatello) but had an able talent, designed a number of pieces beloved by romantics. His greatest was the series of singing angels and dancing boys which form the "singing gallery...
Cleveland's plaque, not terra cotta but marble, was discovered and owned originally by a Parisian antiquary and art critic named Eugene Piot. In 1864 Critic Piot sold it to a fellow pamphleteer, Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph...
Other things of interest in the exhibition are two portrait busts, by Pajon and Houdon, and several terra-cotta plaques by Clodian. There are also four chairs after Oudry, covered with Beauvaih tapestry, which together with several tables and consoles give an idea of the furniture of this period...
...characteristics of the Louis XIV period, to David, who was the first of the neoclassic, painters. Among the groups which will be included are six excellent examples of Chardin, of which one is "Les Bulles de Savon", portraits by Grenze. Duplessis, Tuque, Proudhon, and Drouais, and two terra-cotta reliefs by Clodion. David's "Portrait of Mme, de Serdan" is one of the high lights of the exhibition, which also includes portrait-busts by Pajou and Houdon. Three of the four periods of Fragonard are represented, while Pater and Lancret, of the school of Watteau, are also displayed...
...Providence. It lies 933 mi. southwest of Bermuda, less than 200 mi. from Miami, whence it is a 15-hr. trip on the S. S. Northland. From New York the S. S. Munargo takes 60 hr. U. S. tycoons flocked to Nassau too last week, for the huge terra cotta New Colonial Hotel ($16 to $44 per day) was opening its winter season. On the site of the elegant New Colonial once stood old Fort Nassau where the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious...