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With regard to your cut of Bishop Berggrav in your issue of Sept. 13, may I point out that Holbein's portraits are not ruffed. Ruffs came in later, and are characteristic of the portraits by Frans Hals...
...forefathers . . . shall alone produce the desired reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent changed the picture. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, ruffed like a Holbein portrait in starchy white, pointed his sermon at the "ecumaniacs" who looked for some kind of nonpapal Rome to be built in a day. "There are people," he said, "who simply get angry . . . because the churches are not prepared to unite now and on the spot. The answer to sentimental impatience...
Having introduced his characters, Jarrell finds nothing much for them to do. The talk ranges from Holbein to Mondrian, from Balzac to Thomas Mann, and from Beethoven to Alban Berg. But about all that happens in the whole course of the novel is that an English teacher dies and the music teacher hires a secretary. Wound up like talking clocks on Page One. each of the characters finally runs down by Page...
...Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish and French paintings and Renaissance furniture was grandly laid out. Now the property of Robert Lehman (investment banking), the collection was started by his father, the late Financier Philip Lehman in 1911, is resplendent with Italian primitives and notable examples of the work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini...
Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, by the University of Birmingham's E. K. Waterhouse, begins with the age of Holbein and Henry VIII, moves on through Van Dyck and Hogarth to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough and the 18th century classicists. Backing up the text are 192 pages of black & white reproductions...