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Title: What pictures to see in America
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933
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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a and Child (Fig. 72), in 1519, hewas devoting most of his time to engraving.He had written to a friend ten years before,I wish from now on to confine myself to myengravings; had I so decided years ago I mightnow be the richer by a thousand florins (about$500.00). But Diirer, like Michael Angelo,could turn to his painting with the undimin-ished ardor of his early years and produce notonly this masterpiece—the most famous ofnearly a dozen similar compositions—but theFour Apostles for his native city, Nurem-burg. The unique costume of Saint Anne gives aninteresting bit of German sisterhood biographyand the wholesome young virgin mother andplump baby boy speak volumes on the knowl-edge of home hygiene of the sixteenth centuryin Germany. The pyramidal arrangement islike that of Raphaels madonna pictures, andthe soft lovely color brings to mind what Diirerwrote while in Venice, I have also silenced thepainters, who said that I was a good engraverbut did not know how to manage colors. A
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Fig. 72—Madouna and Child. Diirer. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City.

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