Word: pitti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mythology, his portraits and historical panoramas, is remembered for being the man who made the best pictures of the Virgin Mary and her son. His portraits of her cool and smiling face have been more often copied than any other painter's; notably the Madonna of the Chair (Pitti Gallery, Florence) and the Sistine Madonna (Dresden...
PERELLA - William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...
...that go in a normal year, and the opportunity opened to many more by such inexpensive and congenial methods as the Student Tours, the temptation is great. College men will be everywhere; on the boulevards at the cafes, at the theatres, at the Louvre, the National Galleries, or the Pitti Palace, struggling with art, being rounded out. During the summer they will become conscious of a speaking acquaintance with the cathedrals and paintings they have seen. But they are less likely to have a speaking acquaintance with the people. The people are taken for granted...
...addition to the remarkable copy of the fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli, made by the Russian artist, Nicholas Lochoff, the Fogg Art Museum has recently acquired by gift a copy by Lochoff of the famous "Concert" attributed by Giorgione, in the Pitti Gallery, Florence...
...addition to the remarkable copy of the fresco by Benezzo Gozzoli, made by the Russian artist. Nicholas Lochoff, the Fogg Art Museum has recently acquired by gift a copy by Lochoff of the famous "Concert" attributed by Giorgione, in the Pitti Gallery, Florence...