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Visitors stumbled from the wild visions of the Apocalypse into a wonderland of lions, unicorns and delicate ladies in heavy gowns. From that high point of fantasy, the art gradually declined to the 18th Century confections of pastoral sex and sweetness designed by Boucher and Oudry. To imitate such painted designs, painstaking weavers had used as many as 30,000 different shades of thread...
...resemblance between John Tenniel's famous depiction of the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Matsys' painting [TIME, Jan. 26] ... is undeniable, but Tenniel need not have seen the Matsys painting in order to have achieved his remarkable (and delightful) Duchess, as he may possibly have had access to a crayon caricature by Leonardo da Vinci which is in the collection at Windsor Castle...
...lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John Tenniel, are the subjects of three books published last week in England (by Art & Technics Ltd.). U.S. readers, familiar with only one string of each artist's bow (like Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland), will find the drawings a wonderland of surprises...
...Whose composer brother, Hanns, ordered deported last week, agreed to leave the country voluntarily. He will go to Paris, write the score for a movie version of Alice in Wonderland...
...Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...