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...Your excellent article on the National Gallery's new Rogier van der Weyden [April 5] contains a small misstatement that I would like to correct: Sir John Pope-Hennessy never agreed that the sitter was Philip the Good of Burgundy. Like me, he believed that the picture could be connected with the portrait of Philip's wife, Isabella of Portugal. But he realized that it was unlikely, to say the least, that Philip would have been painted not wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece...
Duke or Saint. This week Britain's National Gallery will put the panel on show cleaned, the halo and lettering removed (they are by a later hand), and identified as a lost work by the great Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden. After long negotiation with the estate of Lady Baird, who died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci...
...were of Philip, merely somewhat unusual but nevertheless remarkable if it were of a saint," says Director Martin Davies. Yet the scholarly debate will certainly go on. The impassioned detail from the heavy eyes and fine-drawn skin to the sensitive mouth, argue a living model whose exact image Rogier van der Weyden was determined to record. Duke or saint, the painting is one of the most precious art discoveries of the past ten years...
...committee's student representatives--all of them candidates for doctorates in education--include Susan Contratto, Charles I. Glenn, Rogier I. Gregoire, and Wood Smethurst. One more student will be named to the group...
...della Francesca. His was strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come, Dürer and Grünewald...