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...given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government in 1934 for one Raphael Madonna (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934 et seq.) Yet for her money Mrs. Rockefeller was able to get good, if not great, examples of almost every well-known modern from Odilon Redon to Peter Blume...
...most sated denizen of Copley Square and the Mayfair. As if the leaded glass windows and pointed archways were not near enough the road to Rome, the architect of the citadel above Lake Waban placed in the driveway a statue in cold, gray stone, a statue of the Madonna. As he drove up the hill the Crimson editor took notice of the homing Wellesley students ambling along beside his car. Nearing the top, he turned to his companion and, never expecting the half-surprised and half-indignant answer he was to get from outside, said, "Where shall I park, next...
...Mona Lisa would be ended by a few facts about the fat-cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites, professor of art and esthetics at Antioch College, ended a twelve-year job of checking Vasari, announced that the woman was Isabella d'Este...
...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...
...Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba, $1,166,400, "worth more than all three of the Raphaels in London's National Gallery...