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SWISS PAINTING by Florens Deuchler, Marcel Roethlisberger and Hans Lüthy. 198 pages. Skira/Rizzoli. $45. One calumny on Switzerland runs that 500 years of democracy produced the cuckoo clock. Naturally, the three Swiss academicians who produced this book dispute the insult. They also show some indecision about whether there is such a thing as Swiss art, as opposed to art that happened to be created in Switzerland. The country never fostered the influential art centers that flourished in Italy and France. It did give birth to at least two masters-Holbein and Fuseli. This volume includes them but concentrates...
...himself had traced to the Bury St. Edmunds monastery in England and dated as late 12th century. For the first time, the cross was reunited with the carved body of the crucified Christ that it is thought to have originally supported. By a fortuitous twist of fate, Medievalist Florens Deuchler, who organized the exhibition, noticed the Christ figure in an Oslo museum last summer, remembered the Metropolitan's cross, and realized from their similar scale, design and delicate coloring that the two were probably at one time part of the same work. The Romanesque Christ was inhumanly serene...
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