Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without its bitter disappointments. The British royal family's ambitious Triumph of Caesar, which Charles I bought, is in such poor condition that it could not be sent at all. Spain was mysteriously uncooperative. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was prevented from lending its Madonna because of the donor's proviso, and the Museum of Art in Copenhagen decided to keep its Christ Seated on a Sarcophagus because it is so popular with tourists...
...capitals to frescoes from Catalonia, mosaics from Italy, enamels from Belgium, wood carvings from Norway. "The difficulty." wrote one Spanish critic, "is to know where to stop and look." In one display was a polished bronze reliquary containing a portrait of the Emperor Barbarossa. In another was a praying Madonna done in mosaics by an artist who might have received his training in Byzantium. There was a robe that originally belonged to a Moorish king but was used by Thomas a Becket as a chasuble. Thus had the crosscurrents of civilization met to be harmonized in a single style...
...sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer society. (She is crowned not in the political capital, notice, but in Atlantic City or Miami Beach, centers associated with leisure and consumption.)" Not that Baptist Cox identifies The Girl with the Madonna. "In fact she is a kind of anti-Madonna. She reverses most of the values traditionally associated with the Virgin-poverty, humility, sacrifice. In startling contrast, particularly, to the Biblical portrait of Mary in Luke I: 46-55, The Girl has nothing to do with filling the hungry with...
...virtuosity, as stilted and brittle as a piece of porcelain. But there is nothing static about the Massa Fermana polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity, and mystical devotion . . . He takes rank with the most genuine artists of all times and countries, and does not weary even...
Valued conservatively at $3,000,000, the collection ranged from a delicate Madonna and Child by the Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...