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...others in the U. S.?those of John P. Morgan (Manhattan), Michael Friedsam (Manhattan), Henry E. Huntington (Los Angeles). In addition to the group of Rembrandts (probably the finest in the world), it contains several items acquired from the Morgan collection: some immensely valuable tapestries, two marbles by Donatello and paintings by such masters as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Constable, Holbein, Hals, Hobbema, Rubens, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Dupre, Raphael, Tintoretto, Murillo, Goya, Velasquez...
Orpen's principal preoccupations appear to be draughtsmanship and " balance " of composition. Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...
...clock.--Fogg Lecture Room. "Donatello" by Professor C. K. Post. Fine Arts...
...Filippo's most pathetic conceptions. The Madonna is here conceived in a less gay and naturalistic spirit than is usual in his works. Indeed, it is filled with a deep, almost tragic spirit, reminding us of the greatest Madonna conceptions by Donatello. It is quite conceivable that Fra Filippo was influenced to a certain extent by Donatello, and he has in this picture reached a deeper and more sublime interpretation of the broad formula of human motherhood...
...series of photographs of sculptures of the Italian Renaissance is now on view in the upper gallery of the Fogg Museum. Among the masters represented are: Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Michael Angelo, Mino da Fiesola, Verrocchio, Benvenuto Cellini, and Giovanni da Bologna...