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According to a Government source, it was Dr. Hanns Swarzenski, the Boston Museum's curator of decorative art and sculpture, who allegedly spirited the little (8½ in. by 10½ in.) panel through customs at Logan Airport, probably in his briefcase or under his coat. Meanwhile, the Italian government -piqued at the loss of a documented national treasure-began an investigation. It concluded that the Raphael came to the U.S., directly or indirectly, through an Italian art dealer, Ildebrando Bossi, who died a month ago. Italy's leading art investigator, Rodolfo Siviero, asserts that Bossi bought...
...world's great repositories of Oriental art, given it distinction in many another field. But no benefactor happened to hit on medieval art. Last spring the museum drew polite attention to this deficiency by adding to its staff white-haired, pink-cheeked, enthusiastic Dr. Georg Swarzenski, Nazi refugee and a top-notch authority on the Middle Ages. Last week Bostonians who floundered through Fenway snowdrifts to the museum found there the finest loan exhibition of medieval art ever assembled...
World War II stopped projected borrowings from abroad. But Dr. Swarzenski effectively panhandled U. S. museums, dealers and collectors, even persuaded such a confirmed non-lender as J. P. Morgan to ship some treasures temporarily to Boston...
Humor and fantasy are as characteristic of medieval art as piety and sound workmanship. All four merge in the series of aquamaniles which Dr. Swarzenski calls his zoo. Once used for ceremonial washing, these bronze ewers include centaurs, lions, horses, unicorns. One gryphon holds a small human figure in his mouth as faucet. Even George Apley would have collected them out of predilection rather than duty...
...University 1921, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1922, Candidate for A.M., Philosophy; Edward Perry Rubin, Senior in Heidelberg University, Tiffin, O., Social Ethics: Jacob Bernard Shohan 2G., Boston, A.B. 1916, Chemistry; Dietrich Conrad Smith A.M., St. Paul, Minn., A.B. University of Minnesota 1923, A.M. ibid, 1924, Zoology; Hanns Peter Swarzenski, Frankfort, Germany, Fine Arts; Charles Edwin Teeter Jr. 1G., Newark, N. J., A.B. 1923, Thayer Scholar, Chemistry...
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