Word: giotto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forever. Meanwhile, art appreciation in the U. S. has come of age with a bang. In 1939 a barrage of art books has been aimed at the public taste. Biggest is Thomas Craven's A Treasury of Art Masterpieces,* a portable gallery of 144 color reproductions ranging from Giotto to Grant Wood. Most aggressive is Peyton Boswell Jr.'s Modern American Painting,† which is as nationalistic as the Spirit...
When the Kress collection at last comes to its resting place, the National Gallery will be richer by works from the brushes of almost every important master in the Italian school: Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Filippo Lippi, Pietro di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini...
...down in 1914 and in 15 homely chapters cut through the welter of U. S. snobbery and callowness about Art. In his classic American Art: How It Can be Made to Flourish, he observed that the ability to tell a well-designed teacup should precede precious talk about Giotto; and he urged the purchase and study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money...
...packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City may not lend their...
...fourteenth century in Italy "Scenes from the Life of Christ" show a change in expression which foreshadows the new painting of Giotto. In the fifteenth in the Low Countries a "Book of Hours" is already a part of Flemish painting. Thus the story of this essentially mediaeval art is brought to its close...