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...approach gives Piero's portraiture a strikingly modern aspect. "It is almost hyper-realism," Bertelli says. "The faces are gigantic compared to the background landscape, making them monumental." The same attention to character is evident in his frescoes. La Madonna del Parto (The Pregnant Madonna) in Monterchi and La Maddelena (Mary Magdalene) in Arezzo's cathedral feature a similar female face, which is both angelic and a touch uneasy. Bertelli says the artist is able to capture the fleeting emotion of his subjects: "It's almost as if the person was obligated for some mysterious reason to stay there...
...appropriate to the season also is Mr. Stillman's article on "Raphael," accompanied by Mr. Cole's engraving of "The Madonna of the Goldfinch," made especially for this number, and three other examples of Raphael's work - the AEneas and Parnassus groups from the Vatican, and the portrait of Maddelena Doni - all of which will be of interest to Fine Arts...
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