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...outsized (11-by-15-in., 5-lb.) volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...
...rescued Italian art from 45 crates turned over by the Nazis to the Vatican (TIME, July 17). Last week they rubbed their eyes. Missing from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy Mellon standards): from two to three million dollars...
...years of canny buying, 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...
...smooth, sculptural quality, a command of detail, a passion for realism possessed by few modern painters. They recall the 15th-Century Italians. In St. John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste falters only rarely, notably...
Married. Elizabeth Fraçgoise Swing, 27, daughter of Radio Commentator Raymond Gram Swing; and Dr. Gerald Gabriel Greene, 27, of Rockyhill, Conn.; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...