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...there are some small ways to escape into a world more harmonious than Cambridge, or a time less threatening than Reading Period. Upstairs at the Fogg, Orazio Gentileschi's Madonna With the Sleeping Christ Child (a recent acquisition) shines with that inexplicable inner light of Caravaggio, Gentileschi's master. And in a small back gallery on the first floor of the museum the Heinz Gotze Exhibit of Japanese Art exemplifies the peculiarly Oriental process of passing from the seen to the unseen. The paintings and calligraphy make a pictorial poetry which Ezra Pound described as "the ideal language...
Caravaggio's sense of theater furnished a host of imitators with a fresh vocabulary. The Caravaggisti were not a closely knit group or even a specially gifted one-though they included some painters of undeniable power, like Orazio Gentileschi. They assiduously imitated Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The manner spread to France and The Netherlands. Georges de La Tour's candlelit night pieces, for instance, sprang from it, and Hendrick Terbrugghen used it with distinction. But his influence stimulated no great painters in Rome, for, by then, there were none left to stimulate. The grand vindication came later, when...
These priceless oils were buried under layers of ignorance, neglect and anonymity," explains Neumann. Tintoretto's Flagellation, with all the master's mannerist mystery of depth, stage lighting and evanescent flesh tones, had been attributed to a copyist. Titian's Toilet was supposedly by his son Orazio, although the supple shoulder line and illusory intermingling of the young woman's ripply tresses with her fluid sleeve reveals the artist's lustrous trademark...
Lalo: Piano Concerto (Orazio Frugoni, pianist; Vox, mono). French Composer Edouard Lalo (1823-92) is remembered chiefly for his Symphonic Espagnole, but he also wrote a number of operas, chamber works and concertos, of which this is one of the most engaging. Urbane, exotically colored, it sparkles in this recording with the prismatic fascination of a many-tiered chandelier...
Mendelssohn: Two-piano Concerto in E Major (Orazio Frugoni & Eduard Mrazek, pianists; Vienna Pro Musica Symphony conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vox). A bright, attractive score written by Mendelssohn when he was only 15, and unperformed for more than a century. Pianist Frugoni, who tilted with a stubborn Soviet-zone librarian in Germany to bring the long-forgotten music to light (TIME, July 16, 1951), plays his part with high spirits...