Word: pollaiuolos
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...subject exhibition." These range from stunt shows which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic art." To do the subject justice an exhibition would have to include...
...Arno below, Bernard Berenson applied his gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that Berenson became rich. In the 40 rooms of the Villa I Tatti he collected a profusion of fine Renaissance furniture and paintings...
There will also be throughout the month an exhibit of 15th and 16th century prints and engravings by Mantegna, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Durer, Schongauer and others...
...painting will be of especial interest in connection with the exhibit of an original painting by Pollaiuolo in the Museum. This is one of the seven extant drawings by the Italian master of the 15th century...
...Antonio Pollaiuolo's painting to be exhibited in the Fogg Museum is entitled. "The Rape of Deianira." The description of the painting in the Catalogue of the Yale Jarves Collection is as follows...