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PERELLA - William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...
...unfinished historical painting, "Monmouth before James II", by John Singleton Copley; from friends of the Museum, a Sienese panel, a "Nativity", attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti; from Mrs. Edward P. Bliss, Greek torso of a boy; from J. Pierpont Morgan '89, 11 volumes of reproductions of drawings in the Uffizi; and from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 158 photographs of prints...
...Fogg Museum has recently received as a loan from the Boston Art Museum, a sixteenth century Flemish copy of Michael Angelo's Holy Family in the Uffizi; also a panel by an unknown master of the south German school, representing the weighing of a human soul by Saint Michael, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint George. Saint Michael holds the scales and pours holy water on the form of a dragon in the scales which represents the soul, thus making the balance go down on the side of purity. The devil, in the form of a dragon, vainly claws...
...interesting paintings from the collection of Mr. C. B. Perkins, both representing the Holy Family. One is attributed to Zaganelli and the other to Bonifazio Veneziano. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has presented an early Flemish copy of Michel Angelo's famous Holy Family, in the Uffizi Gallery...