Word: pieta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another wall are seven German drawings. They belong to the sixteenth century but most of them are in ink and are religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...
...Croatian peasants kneeling at the Angelus, on the other Croatian miners in the U. S. standing with heads bowed while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing on their church. For the side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker. It was well toward the end of May before the final murals complementing these on the back walls took shape and made the women on their way out after mass...
...which a skillful restorer can similate the surface quality of an old master is seen in the painting of the "Pieta" by Carlo Crivelli, a 15th century Italian artist. The whole central portion of this picture was destroyed, and early in the 20th century restoration was undertaken by an able Italian artist, who entirely repainted the center portion, following other original works by Crivelli, and imitating the master's materials and technique very closely. Even with the X-ray it is hard to tell where Crivelli's work leaves off and the modern artist's begins, but by careful observation...
...Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking pictures: a huge, bullnecked Christ crucified whose dead skin lies in ghastly contrast against the living flesh of His friends. Crivelli adds to his Madonna and Child a huge housefly, an exactly rendered cucumber, a halo like a round sheet of riveted steel...
...models. Still painting at the age of 90. his trembling hands and failing eyes produced the technique that led to French Impressionism. The bargaining instinct never left him. Wanting to be buried in the swank Church of the Frari, he offered to swap the monks a new Pieta for a fine funeral. Death caught him before the picture was finished, but the monks burned extra candles for their part of the bargain...