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...signed by German map-maker Hourious Martellus and may be the major source of the earliest extant globe in the world made at Nuremberg in 1492 by Martin Behatm. Dated cirea 1489, and measuring six by four feet, Yale's Martellus map is the only one of the pre-Columbian world to show the famous island of Japan in the location where Columbus believed...
Back at the Ranch. The West Side apartment of Textile Manufacturer Benjamin Heller strikes some as an art gallery with a bed. Huge paintings by Pollock, Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around...
...transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into a guitar, a bicycle wheel, a pre-Columbian monster. The handwriting has replaced style. It has devoured the ball...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700 B.C. to 1800 A.D." Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art" (700 B.C. to 1800 B.C. to 1800 A.D.) opens Wednesday. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold. "18th Century New England Embroideries" will remain on display in Gallery D 21, as will "20th Century Prints by Contemporary Artists" in the Hemicycle and "English and French Watercolors" in the Watercolor Corridor. A display in the Book Corridor will demonstrate "French Design and Decoration for the Craftsman of the 18th Century." In Gallery D 45 a display of communion silver from...