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...Arms for Venus (by Randolph Carter; Mary Hone, producer), elaborated from a tale by Petronius, deals with certain aspects of human frailty in the Rome of Emperor Nero's time. This provides Author Carter, who wrote the play while studying for a graduate degree at Harvard, with an opportunity to mix Roman and Christian mythology in such oaths as "I'll be Jove-damned...
...sumptuous color for which the great Venetian is famed, Education of Cupid shows a plump, blonde Venus handing a sheaf of arrows to a Cupid with blue-tipped wings, while a half-nude handmaiden looks on admiringly and two muscular brown satyrs hoist high in the air baskets of doves and fruit...
...understand what painting meant only after he passed 90, in his later years he worked on seven or eight pictures at once, impatiently used his finger tips more than his brushes in spreading paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape of Europa, bought years ago by Boston's canny Mrs. Jack Gardner, and Judith with the Head of Holofernes at the Detroit Institute of Arts...
...fine fat Venus by Italy's Giovanni Romagnoli...
...three Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result...