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Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Math "Ma?" | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...restored rooms in the north wing of the Palais Saint-Pierre. Among the 150 paintings, 70 sculptures and 250 objets d'art on display are medieval French ivories, enamels and goldwork; 10th to 14th century Islamic ceramics, arms and copperware; and Italian Renaissance sculpture, including Andrea Della Robbia's Virgin and Child and Mino da Fiesole's bust, St. John the Baptist. Seven of the rooms are devoted to painting: 17th century French works by Stella, Le Brun and Jouvenet, as well as Golden Age Dutch and Flemish canvases by Rubens, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Ter Borch and Jan Brueghel. A research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveler's Advisory | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...course, anyone who has seen a clay modello by Bernini or a Della Robbia plaque, a Kändler figure or terra cotta Madonna by Verrocchio, knows that all ready. In that sense the debate is pointless. But the misunderstanding survives, though clay is the oldest form of sculpture: God did not chip Adam from marble, or weld him together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Molding the Human Clay | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...collection has been sequestered while the heirs haggled with the legal authorities about its status. Early this year, at long last, the dispute was finally resolved. The result was a bequest to the city of Florence of 15 ceramic plaques from the della Robbia workshop, 38 pieces of Tuscan Renaissance furniture, 43 prime specimens of majolica and Hispano-Moresque faïence ware, twelve sculptures (capped by Bernini's small but superbly fashioned St. Lawrence on the Grill), and 35 paintings that any museum would be proud to own. Late this month they will go on display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sequestered Treasure | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uptown, Midtown, Museums: Art: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

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