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...French impressionists. Then, four years ago, he began to buy English art of the period in quantity, with the help of British Art Historian Basil Taylor. Today Mellon's oils, drawings and watercolors, dating roughly from 1700 to 1850, include artists of whom even noted critics like John Ruskin and Roger Fry seemed to have been unaware. There are landscapes and animals, intimate "conversation pieces," sports pictures and seascapes as well as portraits -the entire era, in fact, tidily defined by the major artists who began it and developed it. The leading definers in Mellon's collection...
...Giorgio Vasari, erroneously considered Carpaccio a mediocre follower of Giovanni Bellini, and that judgment stood until the 18th century, when critics began to see some merit in his sense of fantasy. But the rise of neoclassicism, which abhorred fantasy, cast him into limbo again, and it was not until Ruskin that he found a new champion. His output had been small compared with that of his contemporaries, and his best work has rarely been brought together. It took the current show to strike the total of Carpaccio's gifts...
VENICE, THE MASQUE OF ITALY, by Marcel Brlon (223 pp.; Crown; $10). It takes impressive hubris to tackle Venice; Ruskin, after, all, got there first, and almost every writer with the price of a ticket has followed him. Author Brion attempts not only a gloss of Venice's history, but also a presentation of the glittering array of its art, and has come respectably close to achieving his goal...
Also: the William Harris Arnold and Gertude Weld Arnold award to Brian C. Stock , income from the fund, for an essay entitled "Hours in an Italian Library ;" and the Ruskin prize, to Rev. Henry A. Kelly , income from the fond, for an essay entitled "The Devil in John Ruskin...
...more satisfying was a private meeting with McGeorge Bundy, Jerome Weisner, Theodore Sorenson, and Mark Ruskin at the White House. Goldmark reported: "We were given a chance to discuss some of our proposals. We emerged much more sure of ourselves, because the Administration is apparently planning to employ some of the initiative we are suggesting...