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Some of the damage is still comparatively minor, e.g., the crack across the top of Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe. But in the case of Diirer's "Dresden" altarpiece. the damage has resulted in almost total loss; the painting, done on fine linen, was apparently water-stained and rotted (probably while in the Germans' wartime hideout), then clumsily glued onto a wooden panel (probably by the Russians...
They could all find something worth looking at: there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...
Saint Anthony of Egypt has repre sented for i, 600 years the spirit of renun ciation. To many painters and writers -including Bruegel, Diirer, Cezanne, Flaubert, Anatole France-St. Anthony's lifelong struggle with the flesh & the devil symbolized one of man's most terrible dilemmas...
...with expert prompting from Britain's No. 1 merchant of art, Lord Duveen of Millbank, made the Bache collection eminently worth seeing. Every great European art period from the Renaissance through the 18th Century is represented. Included are: three Bellinis, a Botticelli, a Fra Filippo Lippi, three Titians, Diirer's Portrait of a Lady, a half-dozen Holbeins and Halses, three Rembrandts, two Vermeers, a scattering of 18th-Century Frenchmen and Britons. Outstanding...
...charcoal portrait of a man by Albrecht Diirer...