Word: mantegna
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...everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Mantegna's St. George from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice...
...drawings from the Italian masters of the Cinquecento. Studies of heads or hands, figures or groups they are small and delicately executed in the exacting mediums of the pen or the silverpoint. But all represent the beginnings of monumental works, religious paintings by such masters as Raphael and Perugino, Mantegna and Filippano Lippi. Of the sixteenth century there are included only two. They are a crayon and much larger in scale; a study by Veronese and a finished portrait by Luini of a young woman...
Jean de Botton was born in Royan 37 years ago, of a French father, an English mother. His parents tried to make him a diplomat but Jean, already a worshiper of Tintoretto, Mantegna and El Greco, stood them off, earned a living doing posters and sketches of furniture. He first won general notice in 1927 with Nu an trois-mâts (nude and three-masted ship). Of another picture, Léda, a critic said that it delivered the kick in the stomach characteristic of genius. De Botton's portrait of Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will...
...None of the Old Masters issued prints limited to 100 proofs and signed in pencil. One never finds a Rembrandt etching, or a print by Dürer, Mantegna, Van Dyck, Goya, Turner, Delacroix or Daumier so signed and limited. These masters or their dealers printed impressions as long as people wanted them...
...Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City may not lend their paintings. He even sent Titian's Venus of Urbino from Florence's Uffizi, although a gap had already been left...