Word: quattrocento
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Modigliani, the gifted young Italian who died at the beginning of a promising career is represented by the "Portrait of a Young Woman." This picture embodies much of the elusive charm of a Quattrocento portrait. It is interesting to compare this work, executed in sombre colors, with the rather harsh Modigliani "Woman and Child" in the Fogg Museum where the artist is working in a very different vein...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...