Word: uffizi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight of the newly arrived American tourist rushing to Paris' Louvre or Florence's Uffizi is as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...said, he had picked up in Florence, Italy a painting that turned out to be a genuine Botticelli. which he values at $80,000. The picture was a smaller (11½ in. by 8½ in.) version of Botticelli's great Judith, which hangs in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Adams guessed his painting to be one of the master's preparatory studies of the subject. Cleaning at Cincinnati had corrected some "bungling repairs," made Judith's head look less prettified...
...museum gave no hint of the price it had paid for its new Aphrodite, but called the statue the artistic equal of the Uffizi's Medici Venus-which was probably copied from the same Greek original. It was Praxiteles who created the first unclad Aphrodite, around the middle of the 4th century B.C. Praxiteles' original is lost to art, but many a sculptor afterwards tried to give his work the same fluid lines and graceful posture. Of those who tried, the unknown sculptor of the Metropolitan Aphrodite is one of the few who even came close...
...missing Musicians. Seventeenth-century contemporaries glowingly described the masterpiece. But though modern experts looked high & low, they could find no record of the painting-much less the painting itself. Once in the early 1920s, an Italian thought he spotted it in the col lection of Florence's Uffizi Palace; it turned out to be the work of an admirer. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art proudly announced that Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Musicians had turned up and been identified beyond a doubt. Furthermore, the museum had bought it and hung it on the wall...