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...Fra Angelica's Bequest. Half of the original 14 who showed at Florence were soldiers. Using portable easels and small canvases, they painted things that academicians shuddered at-prostitutes, troop maneuvers and barefoot peasantry. Then they turned to the subject matter that early French impressionism grew fat upon: landscapes populated by rocks and sheep, woodsmen warming in a shack, wheat harvests, the faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American...
...death without mercy." On the other hand, the loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk in tyme of ser-mone or prayers on Sonday...
...citizens jammed the outdoor cafes for hot coffee and rich pastry, while their feet froze and their necks blistered from the heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...
Utrecht. The Minneapolis Institute of Art now has a rarity: one of the few Fra Angelicos ever to cross the Atlantic...
...full use of a small but uniformly excellent cast. As Phillipe, Maurice Ronet is more than the usual doomed playboy: he creates a memorable picture of selfish animalism. When Marge delays making love to lecture him on art, he explodes, destroys her notes, and roars "Why do you mix Fra Angelico and love...