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...time college proms by Town & Country's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La Roche, sister of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell; descriptions by Sportsman Foxhall Keene of his 18 injuries sustained in sport; and a two-page, full-color spread of "The First Christmas" by Gentile da Fabriano in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...
...world of art until 1930 when Art Expert Dr. Paul Ganz cleaned it, published its photograph in a magazine. Since then museums and private collectors in a dozen countries have been anxious for it. The only other absolutely authentic Holbein self-portrait is a watercolor in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...
...knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials...
...portrait ascribed to Rubens is a replica of that at Windsor Castle. Two other versions, with only slight variations, are to be found in the Uffizi and the Museum of Nantes. It is possible that this version was painted by one of his pupils...
...there is Mussolini, director-general of everything from apple-carts to art in Italy. The citizens of Urbino lately sent a delegation to Rome and last week II Duce decided to take down, from its hooks in the Uffizi at Florence, Raphael's portrait of a relative of Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, one Francesco Maria Della Revere, Duke of Urbino and patron of its painters. After a fitting period of exhibition in the Ministry of Public Education at Rome, the duke will be restored to his duchy, courtesy of Signor Raphael Sanzio...