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High-end luxury stores like Gucci and Ferragamo line Florence's ritzy Via Tornabuoni, but one addition boasts more than the latest spring fashions. Renovations for the new MaxMara boutique, housed in the 15th century Palazzo Corsi, uncovered a series of elaborate frescoes dating to the 1590s. They are believed to be the creation of well-known 16th century artist Agostino Ciampelli, who worked for the powerful Medici family. MaxMara has also maintained decorations from the 19th century as well as the original bookshelves from the famous bookstore that had occupied the building for more than 100 years...
...most beautiful of the pure-profile images, not only in this show but in Renaissance painting as a whole, is the portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, circa 1488, by Domenico Ghirlandaio. She died in childbirth in 1488 at the age of only 20, and it's possible that the image was made after her death, as a kind of monument. (J. Pierpont Morgan, who kept it in the study of his library in New York City, doted on it because it reminded him of his own dead wife, Amelia Sturges.) What is certain, however, is that Ghirlandaio's rich...
Domenico Ghirlandajo's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, to still another anonymous collector for $500,000. One of twelve Ghirlandajos in the U. S.. this brilliant picture of the daughter of the great Florentine banking family was considered one of the most important in the entire Morgan collection. It was bought by the elder Morgan in 1907 for one-half of last week's price...
Poor Mr. Edwin B. Jackson! To be "struck stone blind" in Florence, Italy, is indeed a calamity (TIME, Dec. 8). Do you suppose that my information would supply a glimmerous cure? TIME may be found at the Courtyard Tea Room in Haskard Casardi's Bank on Via Tornabuoni, Florence. The copies may be previous to last week's, and very much thumbed, but they are still legible, and Mother and I read them from "kiver to kiver" during our sojourn there...
Copies of TIME may also be found in Florence at the offices of the American Express Co. (Nos. 2 & 4 Via Tornabuoni) and Thomas Cook & Son (No. 10 Via Tornabuoni), where they are on file for the convenience of TIME readers abroad...
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