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...National Gallery in London and seen his painting of The Ambassadors - two wary young traders amid their pellucid clutter of emblematic objects, with an anamorphic blur of a skull floating strangely across the inlaid floor -knows that at once. Together with his older contemporary, Albrecht Dürer, Hol bein represents the point at which German painting shook clear of its Gothic past and its folk ties, entering and interpreting the great Renaissance streams of power and trade, be coming a primary instrument of self-recognition for a new Europe...
...National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the authors of An Illustrated Life of Jesus, Richard I. Abrams and Warner A. Hutchinson (Abingdon; 159 pages; $35), have selected 94 works to fashion an elaborate and appropriately timed birthday card. From the Annunciation to the Ascension, works by Botticelli, Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt and dozens of lesser-known artists and craftsmen re-create the greatest story ever told and seen. Piety, passion and drama are conveyed in traditional mediums and styles. Jan van Eyck's Gabriel is a resplendent messenger in jeweled robe and peacock-colored wings. Salvador Dali...
...publishing business, it is always Springtime for Hitler. As Mussolini shows, the Fhürer is ubiquitous, a major character or a necessary evil hovering off-page. Few authors should understand this better than Michael Korda. When he is not exploiting national anxieties with such books as Success! or Power! or Male Chauvinism! or winning readers with anecdotes about his triumphant Hungarian relatives (Charmed Lives), he is editor in chief at Simon & Schuster...
...surprise to find Hitler making a guest appearance in Korda's first novel, a tale of success, power, male chauvinism, Hungarians and even a little American publishing. His Fhürer unexpectedly drops in for lunch at Hermann Goring's, expounds the virtues of vegetarianism and overcomes the Reich Marshal and his companions with a blitzkrieg of uncontrolled flatulence...
...inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings are as exquisitely realized, in detail and in the round, as the Met's ivory Bini mask of a Nigerian ruler; and the technical finesse of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, brought back by the conquistadors from South America, astonished Albrecht Dürer in the 16th century as much as it does us today...