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Hanging the paintings is a persistent problem. Arriving without timetable, the works, ranging from Lucas Cranach the Elder to Picasso, were hard to group by theme or period, but "Paintings from Private Collections" is one of the Met's best ventures. So far, some 70,000 visitors have flocked in to see it. Prize items: ¶ Florentine Mannerist Jacopo Pontormo's rarely exhibited Halberdier (owner: Chauncey Stillman...
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
After repeating this procedure with Holbein's King Henry VIII, Cranach's Lucretia and a Modigliani portrait, Trevor-Roper went on to examine other artists affected by eye diseases. Cézanne's myopia may be the reason, he said, for Cézanne's blur. Monet suffered from cataract, which caused his greens to become more yellow, his blues more purple. Constable may not have realized how brown his trees appeared to normal vision because he was colorblind. "A fuzziness or what art historians would call "breadth,' " he went on, is the weakness...
...same tacit veneration accorded Durer ought to go to Lucas Cranach, who, for some reason, has been underrated in this country, although there are a number of particularly fine Cranachs here. The Metropolitan Museum's portrait of John, Duke of Saxony, and especially Judgement of Paris are first rate canvasses. Yet, comparatively speaking, Cranach has been passed...
...solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in Christendom, but the greatest masterpiece carved by Veit Stoss, the German sculptor who. along with his younger contemporaries Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. brought the art of the Middle Ages to its great and final climax...