Word: lippy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose art, compounded of form and fire equally, remained a major triumph of the Christian world. The city of Florence was no bigger than Peoria, Ill., but in a single century-the isth-she blossomed with the paintings of Masaccio, Ucello, Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and a score of others...
Manhattan's Metropolitan featured 70 drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century. Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
During the war years no gilt-edged Old Masters of the Andrew Mellon-J. P. Morgan class have changed hands at auction. Recent sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...
More specific and even better news followed. The BBC reporter had stumbled on a golden horde of paintings from Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery, including works by Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Filipino Lippi, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto. Said...
...from 45 crates turned over by the Nazis to the Vatican (TIME, July 17). Last week they rubbed their eyes. Missing from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy Mellon standards): from two to three million dollars...