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...will leave struck by the variety of purposes and styles which characterized printmaking in the Renaissance. At least come to see the Barbari "Bird's Eye View of Venice" and "The Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea" next to each other, if nothing else. Acquiring the Barbari from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was Pon's great curating acheivement and, as the visual centerpiece of the entire exhibit, it was well worth the effort. Then again, all of Pon's efforts here, if noticed, are fruitful. Pon has provided all of the clues to understanding...
...Police Plaza in Manhattan or to the 84th precinct house in Brooklyn. Demonstrators who refused to give their names, or whom police charged with resisting arrest, will be held until "the arraignments can take place, which may take a while since we are kind of clogged up," officer Richard Barbari said yesterday. Several demonstrators said police warned them they might be detained as long as 3 to 6 hours if they refuse to cooperate...
...medium obviously did not rival painting or drawing in importance. Nevertheless, a wide range of artists (Fra Angelico, Jacopo de' Barbari, Francesco Rosselli) did multiply their images on copper, so that Italian prototypes and compositions filtered increasingly through to northern Europe; in the mid-17th century, Rembrandt was still extracting poses and situations from prints Mantegna and others had made 200 years before...
Three valuable prints have been added to the Gray Collection by purchase: Christ calling Peter and Andrew, by Dirick Jacobsz Vellert; The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth, by Jacopo de 'Barbari; the Beheading of Saint Catherine, by Domenico Campognola; and to the Randall Collection one print, the Prophet Jeremiah, engraved by an anonymous Italian master of the fifteenth century...
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