Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georges Wildenstein was 14 years old, his father. Nathan, gave him two small works of art that were to become more precious to him than all the masterpieces that he later bought and sold. The gifts were illuminated miniatures that had originally been pages in a late 15th century manuscript, and they were the start of what is today the world's biggest and best private collection. Last week 70 items from that collection were on public display at the Cloisters, the way-uptown adjunct of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some are less than...
...manuscript of Giuseppe di Lanipedusa's The Leopard (TIME, May 2, 1960) came to light only by accident some months after the death of its author, an old Sicilian prince who had published nothing during his lifetime. The book was, in a sense, a message washed up in a bottle, and this circumstance may partly account for its great popularity.* But there may be another explanation: the yearning of readers in the cramped present for the spacious spirit of the past...
Even with Guerard behind him, Miller had trouble finding someone to publish This Passing Night. Several publishing houses read his manuscript and offered to print the gang line separately. Miller refused. A number of publishers failed to see the satire, as have the reviewers. Silverman of Dial concluded that the book was "not so much a satire on Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a joke on writing itself." Miller took the criticism calmly. "Well, he didn't see the satire. There's nothing I can do," he said. Eventually the manuscript received a favorable reception at Harpers', who published the book...
...name of Lord Duveen will always be associated with the names of Mellon and Morgan and Kress, and today it is still true that a Duveen customer should be something more than merely solvent. Prices range from $850 for an illuminated manuscript page from a 15th century book to $500,000 for a Giorgione. But buying an old master is not a prerequisite for enjoying the treasures Lord Duveen stashed away during his incredible career. On a Saturday the gallery is usually jammed with art lovers of every age and income, perhaps dropping in to see a small but appealing...
...writer can sustain-a friend two years younger announces that his own novel is to be published-Brendan finds a solution. He imports his dear old mother from Belfast to look after the two children, puts his wife to work, quits the magazine, and dusts off his old manuscript. The novel goes well (the reader is never told what it is about, and it may, indeed, be about a writer), but nothing else does. Mother Tierney cannot understand Brendan's wife, and is shocked by the paganism of his household; she baptizes the children in the bathroom. The wife...