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...John Williams, guitar; Westminster). A remarkable young (20) Australian guitarist in three nice pieces by Spanish Composer Federico Moreno. The tones are water clear, the style one of caressing delicacy, and the whole reminiscent of a precocious Segovia, who in fact taught Williams at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena...
Donatello, the greatest sculptor of the century, introduced the statuette with his small putti in the Baptistery of Siena. From then on, the great studios turned out an army of naked gods, young shepherds, heroes on horseback, satyrs and saints. Many were received with such affection that they acquired a gleaming patina from the caresses of their owners. They were used as decorations for furniture, as inkwells, even as perfume burners to rid the air of the stench of sewage. But mostly they were loved as works of art in themselves...
...watercolors and drawings at an alumni showing at the Yale University Art Gallery. Last week in New Haven, the second Yale alumni loan show was drawing record throngs. They were inspecting 265 new selections of Yale art-from a 15th century wood panel, The Betrothal of St. Catherine of Siena, by Hans Holbein the Elder, to a contemporary Willem de Kooning oil, Souvenir to Toulouse...
...luminous, tempera-on-wood painting of St. Paul, one of the finest examples of early Italian Renaissance art, hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The experts do not agree on who the artist was; most attribute it to the 14th century school of Simone Martini in Siena. Yet the master himself was probably not the painter; most likely, it is the work of his brother-in-law and pupil, Lippo Memmi. Experts speculate that the painting was originally part of a magnificent altarpiece, with at least one other saintly companion, and they think they have found...
Field Trip. In Memphis, after City Judge Beverly Boushe had showed up at Siena College to give a lecture on memory training, he remembered that the talk was scheduled for the next week...