Word: piero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
These admonitions, although obviously unenforceable, in the legal sense, were backed by a covering letter in which Signor Piero Parini, Secretary General of Foreign Fascist Organizations, declared: "The word of Il Duce is a commandment which admits neither of glossing over nor of interpretations of any sort...
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...
...Piero Pollainoto: Verrocchilo", Verrocchilo", Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...faculty of 40 were: President Wallace W. Atwood of Clark University, geography; Dean Heckel of Missouri, citizenship; Dean Howes of Williams, Greek and Latin; Professors Piero Glacosa of the University of Turin, institutions and culture; Leslie J. Ayer of the University of Washington, international law; Ellwood Griscom Jr. of the University of Texas, public speaking; Dean Lough and Robert MacDougall of New York University, psychology; Eugen Oberhummer of the University of Vienna, geography; Will C. Rufus of the University of Michigan, astronomy...