Word: crucifixions
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...comprehensive study of Griinewald (Abrams; $15), Critic Pevsner reproduces all that has been definitely identified as the painter's work, a mere 38 sketches and the whole or parts of ten altarpieces, including the Washington National Gallery's Crucifixion (TIME, July 18, 1955). Quite properly, 62 of the book's 143 plates are devoted to Griine-wald's twelve-paneled Isenheim altarpiece (now in Colmar's Unterlinden Museum), a work so famous it was mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles...
...friend, Painter Fernand Leger, he met Chartres' famed stained-glass artist, Gabriel Loire, who molded the glass according to Harrison's design. The ruby, amber, amethyst, emerald and sapphire glass sections, roughly chipped to flash like jewels, are laid out to form abstract designs representing the Crucifixion and Resurrection...
...rich in art, the new museum in its first year is drawing well over 1,000 visitors a day. Most distinguished: Florence's nonagenarian Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson, who summoned up strength to visit Capodimonte, stayed for more than half an hour before Masaccio's Crucifixion (high on "BB's" list of world masterpieces), then left, overwhelmed...
After the Crucifixion, it took Christ three days to liquidate Hell. We all know, but of course we don't tell the priests...
...course, as sensitive and witty as ever, and Juan Gris, as richly controlled as always. Chagall is represented at his most fanciful and most substantial, Braque displays his talent for being perennially so very right, and Rouault, as usual, exhibits as much profundity in a landscape as in a crucifixion. It is good to see less exhibited figures such as Villon and Masson included, though Miro, Leger, Mondrian and the sculptor Lipschitz receive perhaps less than their...