Word: lionello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally, he is primarily interested. He rather resents the academic habit which separates past and present and ignores their reciprocal relationship. He wants taste in the present tense, in the sense implied by Lionello Venturl's remark, "the history of criticism teaches that the critic has need of a present taste to direct his judgment even upon past art . . . the intuitive consciousness of art in the making that is to say, contemporary...
...cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya's series of 85 etchings with a foreword by the late Elie Faure. Others were big books of reproductions of Titian, Cézanne, van Gogh, the Impressionists, Rembrandt...
...Price: $110,000. After Mr. Widener's formal presentation, the Pennsylvania Museum put the painting on display, predicted proudly that "no person informed in the field of modern art will be able to miss the opportunity of seeing and studying a picture which has been described [by Critic Lionello Venturi] as 'the master invention of Cézanne's architectural imagination...
Continuing the series of lectures on "Italian Criticism of the Renaissance", Professor Lionello Venturi of the University of Turin will address Fine Art students in the Large Lecture Room of Fogg Museum for the second time at 4 o'clock. The three lectures are open to all members of the University...
...Italian criticism of the Renaissance" is to be the subject of three public lectures to be given by Professor Lionello Venturi, of the University of Turin. Professor Venturi, son of the great historian of Italian art, is the author of several books on Venetian painting and on criticism. In America the visiting lecturer is known for his book on Italian Paintings in America. Lectures at Fogg will be given on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons of next week at 4.30 o'clock. The public is invited...