Word: sixteenths
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...another wall are seven German drawings. They belong to the sixteenth century but most of them are in ink and are religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...
...Cinquecento. Studies of heads or hands, figures or groups they are small and delicately executed in the exacting mediums of the pen or the silverpoint. But all represent the beginnings of monumental works, religious paintings by such masters as Raphael and Perugino, Mantegna and Filippano Lippi. Of the sixteenth century there are included only two. They are a crayon and much larger in scale; a study by Veronese and a finished portrait by Luini of a young woman...
When we come to the large group of French drawings we are at once impressed by the length of a tradition in draughtmanship. Of its several centuries five are represented here. The accomplishment of the sixteenth can be seen in aportrait by Francois Clouet, of the seventeenth in a wash drawing of landscape by Claude. The special character of the eighteenth, in attitude as in drawing is revealed in a series of red crayon studies by Watteau and Fragonard, Boucher and Greuze...
...lecture is to be given as a feature of the Museum's current exhibition of Germanic graphic art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, ending December...
...wrote the H. A. A. to the effect that, since they had given him the worst seats in the stadium for 15 years, could they possibly keep their record intact and give him the worst in the stadium for the sixteenth year. He figured his frankness might get him a seat right back of the team, but his strategy backfired. He was placed in the exact center of the steel stands in row A. As they had used the north end for haying that year, he didn't get a very good view of the proceedings...