Word: tornabuoni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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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