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...DARK MADONNA-Richard Summers- Caxton Printers ($2.50). Well-told, realistic tale of a southwest "Little Mexico," revealing further weakness in such sentimentalized stories as John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat...
Acquisition of what was described as "an extremely important Gothic Madonna of the early fifteenth century" was announced yesterday by the Germanic Museum...
...among the finest examples of that tender, flowing, calligraphic style that flourished in Germany from about 1380 to 1450, a style which is little known in America, and is not at all represented by original works in any of the local museums." Money for the purchase of the Gothic Madonna was donated by a group of friends of the Germanic Museum...
Sirs: You have indeed made a fine, and most appropriate selection for Woman of the Year, and what a sublime face, what a God-given charm, with a divine right to use it on king or commoner alike, has Wally. It approaches that of either the Madonna, or Mona Lisa herself. Who shall reproach the abdicated, uncrowned King of all hearts of all nations? For such a face, and such a love, would not any real man abdicate a thousand thrones, and reject a thousand crowns? With her love as his own, might not such a man take...
Similarly in another instance the X-ray shadowgraphs probed beneath the surface of a sentimental and flat painting of a "Madonna and Child" attributed to the 15th century Italian, Antonazzo Romano, and discovered underneath it a much more forceful painting. When an accurate copy has been made of the outer painting, or when a colour photograph has been taken, the Fogg technical staff plans to clean off the outer layers of paint and reveal the original and more important work...