Word: lippy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canny buying, with expert prompting from Britain's No. 1 merchant of art, Lord Duveen of Millbank, made the Bache collection eminently worth seeing. Every great European art period from the Renaissance through the 18th Century is represented. Included are: three Bellinis, a Botticelli, a Fra Filippo Lippi, three Titians, Diirer's Portrait of a Lady, a half-dozen Holbeins and Halses, three Rembrandts, two Vermeers, a scattering of 18th-Century Frenchmen and Britons. Outstanding...
...quality, a command of detail, a passion for realism possessed by few modern painters. They recall the 15th-Century Italians. In St. John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste falters only rarely, notably in her portrait...
...instance, a clever imitation of a painted limestone Egyptian head, purporting to date from 2750 B.C. was found to be a forgery when chemical analysis proved the paint was not of the period. Fogg Museum experts, in another case, found that a purported drawing by Fllippino Lippi, was in reality a clever reproduction by a photographic process...