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...Domenico Ghirlandajo's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, to still another anonymous collector for $500,000. One of twelve Ghirlandajos in the U. S.. this brilliant picture of the daughter of the great Florentine banking family was considered one of the most important in the entire Morgan collection. It was bought by the elder Morgan in 1907 for one-half of last week's price...
...Gallery Exhibition (in London and in Manchester). Soon Sir Joseph Duveen will bring them to the U. S. There are 120 in all. The artists may be grouped into the six Italian schools: Duccio di Buoninsegna of the Siena; Lippo Memmi and Brenna of Simone de Martino influence; Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli, del Sarto of the Florentine; Luini of the Milanese; Romano and Signorelli of the Ferrarese; Carlo Crivelli, Antonello, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palma, Lotto, del Piombo, Bonifazio and Paolo Veronese of the Venetian. The Venetians enjoy the greatest representation...
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...
...Judgment; Piero di Cosimo's panels of the life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers, Van Dyck, de Hooch, Ruysdael, Ter Borch, Van der Cappelle, Mme. Le Brun...
Michelangelo, the son of one of the lesser nobles of the city of Florence, was born in 1475, at the time when the Italian Renaissance was at its height. As a youth he made but a poor scholar and at an early age was apprenticed to the artist Ghirlandajo, at whose workshop his masterful faculty at once asserted itself. Then for three years he lived at the Casa Medici where, under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent, he had opportunity for personal contact with the most vigorous and influential minds of his age; and was enabled to feel the full...