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...matter of fact that Andrew Mellon bought Raphael's famed Alba Madonna from the Russian government in 1931, that he paid a whopping $1,166,400 for the picture, and that it now hangs in Washington's Mellonrbuilt National Gallery. So why on earth should the Reds claim they still have the painting? That question, raised in last week's Art News magazine, put critics in a whirl. It need not have...
Along with these news subjects, we have had cover stories which discussed the way in which artists through the ages have depicted the real news of Christmas, the birth of Christ. There was Gerard David's painting of The Nativity in 1945 and, two years later, the Madonna and Child by Renaissance Painter Alesso Baldovinetti...
...impulse is wide as well as deep. One of the most interesting exhibitions of 1950 was the Vatican's assembly of art drawn from 600 mission centers around the world. Among the finest sculptures in the show (TIME, Aug. 14) were sere oriental Madonnas from Korea and India, a dark Madonna and Child from Africa. But among the moderns of Europe and the U.S., a preoccupation with the Christian theme is still the rare exception; the main streams and the main schools follow other and worldlier concerns. Even among the exceptions it is hard to find anything with...
...painting in question was a Madonna miniature done by Raphael in 1501, when he was just 18. Its owner, Professor Tullio Gramantieri, had refused as much as $75,000 for it. Then, 2½ years ago, it was stolen from the professor's apartment. Until last week, Rome's police were stymied...
...Monsignor Costantini, all that seems right and proper. European artists, too, had often represented the saints as being of their own race, place and period. The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...