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Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). Great artists-Griinewald, Bellini, Duccio, Piero della Francesca-and their versions of the resurrection...
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the Clarence Mackay collection) was perhaps his best-loved "child...
...June 9, 1311, the great Italian banking city of Siena was fighting an economic death struggle with booming Florence as Duccio di Buoninsegna finished his altarpiece for the cathedral. The city's nine merchant magistrates declared a public holiday. Duccio and his altarpiece were paraded through the streets to the cathedral. At the sight the Siennese fell on their knees as all the church bells tolled. Siena's greatest masterpiece, this work marked both the end of the Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian...
...Duccio's work just one piece is completely authenticated: the great altarpiece for Siena's cathedral completed on June 9, 1311. Most of the altarpiece and all the contracts connected with it are still preserved in Siena. Missing are several of the 24 gilded wooden panels that once covered the back. It was one of these, entitled Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, that Mr. Kress bought last week, a 17-inch square, showing the figure of Christ on a rocky shore calling Peter and Andrew from their fish nets. All summer it has been on view...
...panels were found in an Italian antique shop by the late British Collector Robert Henry Benson. In 1927 his entire collection was bought by Lord Duveen for $3,000,000, brought to the U. S. Lord Duveen quickly wrote off a third of his investment by selling the four Duccios for $1,000,000, two to John D. Rockefeller Jr., one to the Frick Collection, and the fourth to Mr. Mackay who sold it to Mr. Kress for exactly what he paid for it less the Duveen commission. For the same panel six centuries ago the City of Siena paid...