Word: perugino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perugino's Crucifixion with St. John, the Magdalen and St. Jerome...
...seasons. The manuscripts in particular are so valuable that, except at the New York Library, they have never been shown before. The twenty-eight books and many separate pages, rich with color and gold, some as old as the ninth century, contrast vividly with the twenty original drawings from Perugino to Watteau. Yet they combine together in presenting an unusual survey of the art of draughtsmanship...
...Perugino's Crucifixion with St. John, the Magdalen and St. Jerome, a magnificent triptych, hung peacefully over the altar of the Dominican Church in many-towered San Gimignano for 400 years, until Napoleon swept through Italy. Unlike most of Napoleon's booty, it was not deeded permanently to the Louvre, slipped through a number of private hands to land finally in Moscow. One of the greatest of the Hermitage treasures, it cost Mr. Mellon the least...