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...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...
...come to the point swiftly: it is a stunning show. From a very handsome Madonna by Annibale Carracci, owned by Sydney J. Freedberg, professor of Fine Arts at the University, to a challenging, "uncompositional" Dubuffet, part of Mr. Pulitzer's great collection, the works displayed are of a remarkably high calibre...
...castle, church or chapel that loomed over a once thriving town. Most of the tiny sculptures that decorate it are still intact, but the fresco that presumably brightened the interior was long since washed away. The Cloisters was not dismayed: it already owned a magnificent fresco of a seated Madonna painted by the 12th century Master of Pedret. The fresco was a bit small, but once set in the new apse, it seemed perfectly at home. After 26 years The Cloisters had its golden treasure at last, almost as it must have been eight centuries...
...with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks the tree-by obvious inference, the apocalyptic Tree of Life, whose "leaves were for the healing of the nations"-and tears it to pieces...