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...Raphael ($4.50), just shipped to the U.S. (the present book of reproductions was published last winter in England). The prejudice which it seeks to correct has existed for many years among critics and criticasters in rebellion against the painter of the famous, widely and often ruinously reproduced Sistine Madonna...
With the centuries his reputation increased, but of his many paintings, fame touched particularly his sweet, overblown Madonnas: The Madonna of the Chair, the Alba Madonna, the Sistine Madonna. The world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...
...Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg technical department, on a Fogg picture now exhibited in a second-floor gallery. Purchased in Italy by a collector, the Crespi Madonna was severely damaged when the ship caught fire. The Fogg directors bought the damaged picture, blistered and flaked as it was. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts all the remaining paint was transferred to an aluminum panel and the missing portions restored...
...suite at Manhattan's Hotel Ambassador last week, newshawks were treated to a firsthand account of British farming in wartime. The agricultural expert was blonde, 49-year-old Lady Diana Duff Cooper, for many years "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," famed for her playing of the Madonna in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her Cabinet Minister husband, Alfred Duff Cooper, she was en route to the Far East, where he will act as coordinator of Britain's war efforts...
...respected of all Fifth Avenue window-display men, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming China Trade show, filled his windows with elegant Chinoi-series, including two life-size rag-doll horses. Swank Jeweler Marcus' veteran designer, W. B. Okie Jr., surrounded a terra cotta madonna with Easter lilies and pearls. Macy's Irving Eldredge, who has 41 windows to fill, paraded his dummies before backdrops of Manhattan landmarks and the Central Park Zoo. Designer Walter Smith, who works for both I. Miller (shoes) and Jaeckel (furs), got Cellophane Easter bunnies into the windows...