Word: peruginos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Kress collection at last comes to its resting place, the National Gallery will be richer by works from the brushes of almost every important master in the Italian school: Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Filippo Lippi, Pietro di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini...
...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...
...item is a group of important drawings acquired at the sale of the Oppenheimer Collection in London through the gift of an anonymous donor. Of these six are Italian, while the others include a medieval monastic drawing, an early North Italian, two distinguished figure studies in silver point by Perugino and Raphael; and heads by Luini and Liberale da Verona. In addition there is a drawing of the Holy Family by Correggio and two Flemish drawings, one by Van Dyck, the other by Rubens...
From an anonymous donor, the museum received ten drawings by Luini, Perugino, Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyck, and other old masters from the Oppenheimer Sale of art works in London last summer. Outstanding in a large number of gifts of sculpture were a monumental Japanese figure of the 15th century donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, of Washington, a 13th century Gothic tomb figure in wood from Spain, donated as a memorial to the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter, and a bronze statuette of a champion stallion from Herbert Haseltine, the sculptor...
...longer a great collection. It has gone to pieces because of Mellon's purchases." This was poppycock, in the opinion of most critics, who believe that the Hermitage was able easily to spare Mellon's $3,247,695 worth with the sole exception of the Perugino, which cost the least...