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...beauty during the Christmas rush. Illuminated color transparencies of 25 Renaissance masterpieces in full size tell the Christmas story with remarkable fidelity. There are reproductions of paintings and frescoes by such masters as El Greco, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Gozzoli, Giorgione and Bellini. Among them is Raphael's Alba Madonna, shown here. TIME readers may remember seeing it in color in our Nov. 24 issue, for when Andrew Mellon paid the Russians $1,166,400 for it back in 1931, it was the largest sum ever paid for a painting until Rembrandt's Aristotle (on TIME's cover...
Besides Aristotle, the Erickson collection contained two other Rembrandts. A handsome Prince of Orange went to Knoedler's for $110,000, and a small Portrait of an Old Man was snagged by a London dealer for $180,000. Crivelli's 1472 Madonna and Child, which British Critic Roger Fry said was "one of Crivelli's greatest designs," brought $220,000; in 1886 it had been sold at Christie's in London for ?131.5. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts paid $125,000 for Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Confraternity...
...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...