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Similarly the newly collected cuts from the "Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein. "The Death of the Virgin" by Rembrandt, and works by Abraham Bosse tell much about the manner of life of people in the seventeenth century. Prints by Boucher and Fragonnard, flower designs for wall-paper and textiles after Pillemont, and a reproduction of Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mede" are illustrative of the decorative arts in the eighteenth century...
...rosy native graces depicted by Reynolds and Gainsborough. Several wrote to the newspapers. Why did the Dutchmen choose such ugly models? Were they ugly? Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American, agreeing for once with Britishers, echoed the questions and said of Artist Haus Holbein's Eve: "The mother of the human race . . . appears to be afflicted with adenoids for she is certainly breathing through her mouth...
Embroideries, etchings by Gaya and Canal, prints by Durer and Holbein, a 3000-year old censer from Iraq and an antiphonary from Italy, partially represent the scope of an exhibition first opened at the Fogg Art Museum to display recent accessions...
...great "Triumphal Car" by Durer, dated 1522, was one of the woodcuts planned by the Emperor Maximilian to glorify his family and achievements. Closely allied to it are the twelve proofs of subjects from Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death", which make the set in the Fogg Museum one of the few full ones in the world. The "Dance of Death" was a favorite subject in the north of Europe during the Middle Ages, and Holbein's series of woodcuts, his most important work in this style, in one of the finest representations...
...Hans Holbein", Professor Pauli, Fogg Lecture Room...