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...pupils; the French works -- one by Manet and several by Degas -- vary from slight to trivial. It seems quite clear that the thieves had very little idea of what to go after, since the glory of the Gardner Museum is its Italian paintings, starting at the top with Titian's Rape of Europa, regarded by some as the greatest single Italian Renaissance canvas in the U.S. and bought by the formidable "Mrs. Jack" Gardner for what seemed to her and everyone else an enormous price in 1896: just under...
...merciless excision. The Weavers would satisfy anyone as a genre picture of women at work, spinning the woolen yarn for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Isabel; but its meanings unravel far beyond that, back to the fable of Arachne in Ovid's Metamorphoses, taking in complicated references to Titian and even to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling...
...which a fox with pricked ears and pointed muzzle makes a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't appearance among swipes of black and reddish-brown on the bare canvas ground, seems to reflect Winslow Homer's The Fox Hunt. Among the later paintings are versions of a Titian portrait, of a Flight into Egypt by Jacopo Bassano, and of a Manet still life: For E.M., 1981, in which the colors and placing of fish, copper pot and black wall remain as gleams and traces after the objects themselves have gone...
TREASURES FROM THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Highlights of the collection built up by British connoisseurs over two centuries at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam, including paintings by Titian, Rubens and Delacroix, manuscripts, ceramics, sculpture and decorative arts. Through June...
...Italian painters and sculptors ruled the European roost, setting the standards of achievement by which Western culture judged itself. By the 19th century this primacy was lost, and throughout the modernist era Italy produced no equivalents to Picasso, Matisse or Mondrian, and, of course, nothing even faintly comparable to Titian or Michelangelo...