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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generosity, in museums -the Royal Academy, the Burlington Fine Arts Club, the New Gallery Exhibition (in London and in Manchester). Soon Sir Joseph Duveen will bring them to the U. S. There are 120 in all. The artists may be grouped into the six Italian schools: Duccio di Buoninsegna of the Siena; Lippo Memmi and Brenna of Simone de Martino influence; Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli, del Sarto of the Florentine; Luini of the Milanese; Romano and Signorelli of the Ferrarese; Carlo Crivelli, Antonello, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palma, Lotto, del Piombo, Bonifazio and Paolo Veronese of the Venetian. The Venetians enjoy...
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...
Proud, the Pittsburgh (Negro) Courier, boasted: "The Courier was the first to publish an individual picture of the Countess di Albertini . . . who has just passed from the state of girlhood to womanhood...
Meanwhile, in Paris, correspondents were asking: "Who is Count Pepito di Albertini?" Since the Parisian police keep a very careful record of all strangers, it was to M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe that reporters turned. They received a reply which was suavity itself: "Our records show that this gentleman came with Miss Baker from America, three years ago, as her manager. Their addresses in Paris have always been the same, although this residence has changed several times. The gentleman has never claimed a title other than 'Monsieur...
Meanwhile Negro friends of Miss Baker in Harlem, New York City, positively asserted that she was the wife of a Pullman porter named George Baker. By this time the confusion and sensation were international. The Associated Press put its Rome correspondents to work tracing Count Pepito di Albertini. For three days they ransacked Italian genealogical and police records-found no such name-announced the fact...