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...content with a rapid succession of single biographical stunts, Author Ludwig here manages three somersaults in one leap, and lands, rather blown, upon his feet. Into one volume he has squeezed the life and works of Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven, enough to occupy an author 20 years. The temerity of the performance may be pardoned, however, for the deftness of its execution. It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks. Except for the overripe interpretive verbiage, the volume can be read...
There was on view last week far too much for any one brain to appreciate at a single view: six Rembrandt portraits and eight drawings; five Goyas; eight Monets; 20 Courbets; nine Corots (all figure paintings) ; eleven Manets; five Cezannes; 22 Chinese paintings; 820 Japanese prints; 247 pieces of Japanese lacquer; 182 European prints and etchings?critics grew dizzy, ran out of adjectives. What was obvious to everyone was that this collection for all its beauty and value did not represent, like the Morgan and Widener collections or the Huntington collection in California, the purchases of an intelligent man obediently...
...Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Fernando Nino de Guevara, a crafty-eyed prelate in thick horn-rimmed spectacles, painted over 300 years ago, just before Inquisitor Fernando burned alive half a hundred heretics in the Toledo market place; Manet's portrait of the redhaired, raffish George Moore; the superb example of Rembrandt's engraving: "Christ Healing the Sick...
...Metropolitan galleries will be opened on March 11 containing the famed Havemeyer collection (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929) which will greatly swell the museum's resources with fine specimens of Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Degas, El Greco, Millet, Puvis de Chavannes, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Veronese, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, De Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Goya. All in all. those who can content themselves with great artistry before Cezanne will find the Metropolitan a fascinating repository of paintings, not as great as the major European museums, but undeniably important.* Those who completely subscribe to Critic Cortissoz's beliefs will find little...
...exhibition in Gallery XV of the Fogg Art Museum is a rare Rembrandt, "A Youth with a Black Cap and Long Curling Hair", which has been lent for a short period of exhibition by Sir Joseph Duveen, a well-known art connoisseur. The picture comes form the collection of Lord Leconfield, in Petworth, Sessex, and was exhibited in London, at the Royal Academy...