Word: fra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masters. "You can't keep draining Europe forever," says President Fowles. "Finally you get to the bottom of the barrel." But Duveen's barrel is still well padded. For sale last week : five Rembrandts, four Botticellis, six Bellinis, three Titians, three Gainsboroughs, two Giorgiones, one Fra Angelico, one Castagno and 600 other lesser English, Dutch, French and Italian old lights...
Certain to stay are such masterpieces as the circular Adoration of the Magi (see picture), which was begun by the great and devout 15th Century Florentine, Fra Angelico, and finished by his more worldly junior, Fra Filippo Lippi. Renaissance Scholar Bernard Berenson surmises that Fra Angelico painted the radiant Virgin and Child and the background figures, and that Fra Filippo is responsible for the sharply characterized foreground figures on the right. Other standouts in the collection are Benozzo Gozzoli's Dance of Salome and Beheading of St. John the Baptist, a grisaille (grey monochrome) frieze by Giovanni Bellini, portraits...