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...their classic moment, fusing the pop spirit and an astoundingly eclectic range of sounds into a harrowing but harmonious whole. Their double-disk album called simply The Beatles, which has just been released in the U.S.,* may well be interpreted as an example of the group in a mannerist vein. Skill and sophistication abound, but so does a faltering sense of taste and purpose. The album's 30 tracks are a sprawling, motley assemblage of the Beatles' best abilities and worst tendencies...
...masterpiece of the exhibition is easily Jacopo Pontormo's Annunciation. Rarely, in this country, has the troubling 16th century mannerist been represented by such an ethereal, yet commanding, picture. Looming above the onlooker, Pontormo's Angel Gabriel is shown as a dissipated Florentine gallant with an exquisite shell-pink ear, hennaed locks and a flattened head. As for the Virgin Mary, she is both innocent and sophisticated, a strangely languorous vessel of the Lord, whose fashionable lilac coif emits a greenish, phosphorescent glow...
...FLORENTINE NOBLEMAN. The portrait is obviously a distinguished mannerist painting. It was bought by the St. Louis City Art Museum in 1943 as a Salviati (1510-63), then identified in 1951 as by Michele Tosini. But any number of other mid-16th century Italian painters have been mentioned as the artist, including Pontormo, Mirabello Cavalori, Jacopo del Conte and Vasari. At the moment, the museum displays it as attributed to Tosini, but no one is sure. Everyone agrees, however, that knowing who is portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could...
...only the three great masters--Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan Vermeer--and the artists who influenced them, but also the breadth and abundance of high quality painting done in the Netherlands at that time. Such an exhibition would show Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer against a backdrop of Mannerist, Caravagguesque, and Italianate paintings; it would include a representation of the best still lifes, biblical and historical paintings, genre scenes, landscapes, marine paintings, and portraits...
...century came from the South via engravings and etchings; these are not included in the special exhibition. However, at the Fenway entrance on the first floor, the museum has arranged a display of prints, from its own collection, in conjunction with the Rembrandt exhibition. The print show contains late Mannerist engravings by Goltzius and others, as well as a variety of genre works, portraits, landscapes, and several Rembrandt etchings. Rembrandt's genius is more adequately shown in these prints than in the paintings upstairs...