Word: holbeins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original purposes of cards, that of fortune-teelling. The cards in this pack are covered with weird words and marks scrawled on their faintly colored greasy surface. Another ancient deck from France shows beautifully engraved nobles and ladies on, its court cards, executed with all the finesse of a Holbein or a Durer...
...humer in Breughel. Pisanelio may seem, at first thought, to be purely nonsensical, but with longer inspection of these drawings, it will be found that his nonsense becomes mingled more and more with passionate reality until it fixes itself in admirable concentration and observation. The other artists represented are Holbein, Fragonard, Delacroix, Watteau, Canaletto, and Duerer. For the visitor, we suggest the mental attitude inspired by the great Delacroix horse, perhaps the most conspicuous drawing in the room
Among the prints in the exhibit there will be several examples of excellent impressions of work by Cranach, Hans Baldung, Grun, and the "Little Masters." Holbein is also represented in the exhibition. Among the prints by him there will be some very fine proofs from the Dance of Death some excellent borders, and several Old Testament cuts...
...Likeness of Elizabeth deals with the forgery of a painting by Holbein. The sham is detected by one of the forger's best friends...
...Manhattan), Michael Friedsam (Manhattan), Henry E. Huntington (Los Angeles). In addition to the group of Rembrandts (probably the finest in the world), it contains several items acquired from the Morgan collection: some immensely valuable tapestries, two marbles by Donatello and paintings by such masters as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Constable, Holbein, Hals, Hobbema, Rubens, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Dupre, Raphael, Tintoretto, Murillo, Goya, Velasquez...