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...concessionaires did a brisk business in peanuts, long lines of Back Bay dowagers, soda jerks, businessmen and urchins filed through the five long exhibition tents to see what they could see. There was a handsome, windswept Yacht Race by old (82) Portraitist Charles Hopkinson, an expressionistic Adoration of the Magi by David Aronson, paintings by such artists as John Atherton, Gardner Cox, John Marih, George Grosz. And, from lesser lights, there were rows of wild abstractions and novelties, e.g., a huge sculpture done in living moss festooned with geraniums, a "painting" composed of rusty hardware fastened on a golden background...
Gian-Carlo Menotti believes that "any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intensely he must sing it out." Standing before Hieronymous Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi one day in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Menotti felt the old intensity welling up inside. He found himself thinking about miracles of faith, and of his own childhood lameness which was cured-miraculously, he believes-when he was four. As he stood there, he knew he had the subject for his seventh opera...
These ten reproductions of Chartres' matchless stained-glass windows tell the story of His coming. Each panel is a chapter: the annunciation to the Virgin that she is to be the mother of Jesus, the birth in the manger, the glad tidings to the shepherds, the star-guided Magi's visit to King Herod, the presentation of Jesus at the temple, Joseph's dream-warning of Herod's murderous plan, the flight into Egypt, and Herod's massacre of the newborn innocents...
Certain to stay are such masterpieces as the circular Adoration of the Magi (see picture), which was begun by the great and devout 15th Century Florentine, Fra Angelico, and finished by his more worldly junior, Fra Filippo Lippi. Renaissance Scholar Bernard Berenson surmises that Fra Angelico painted the radiant Virgin and Child and the background figures, and that Fra Filippo is responsible for the sharply characterized foreground figures on the right. Other standouts in the collection are Benozzo Gozzoli's Dance of Salome and Beheading of St. John the Baptist, a grisaille (grey monochrome) frieze by Giovanni Bellini, portraits...
...poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned the Magi into a composite playing card. The result was not as handsome as real playing cards, but it had style and force...