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My own ambivalent feelings about this are somewhat different. If a Duccio panel
practically the size of a postage stamp is worth $45 million U.S., why isn't Medieval
Art History being better funded than it currently is?
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
> I have rather ambivalent feeling about George's posting (not that he posted
> it, but for the actual news in it). On one hand, it is good to have a
> capolavoro out from private collection to be admired by all the willing
> souls. On the other hand, Duccio just does not belong to New York city. Its
> rightful place would be somewhere in Italy. Then again, there is no lack of
> works of art in Tuscany....Anyway, money talks.
>
> All the best,
>
> Jussi Hanska
>
> P.S. Just to make things absolutely clear, I wouldn't want to have it Finland
> either. That would be equally out of place.
>
>
>
> Lainaus George Ferzoco <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> > Dear medieval-religion colleagues,
> >
> > In case you missed it, the New York Times reports, at:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/design/10pain.html?oref=login&8hpib
> >
> > that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has obtained a work by Duccio.
> >
> > The article begins:
> >
> > 'In its most expensive purchase ever, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has
> > agreed to pay more than $45 million for a painting by the early Renaissance
> > master Duccio di Buoninsegna no bigger than a sheet of typing paper.
> >
> > The work, "Madonna and Child," merely 8 by 11 inches and painted in
> > tempera
> > and gold on a wood panel around 1300, is the first Duccio to enter the
> > Met's
> > collection, filling a gap in its Renaissance holdings that the museum had
> > assumed it could not close, said Philippe de Montebello, director of the
> > Met. The sale of the painting, the last work by Duccio known to be owned by
> > a private collector, was negotiated through Christie's in London.'
> >
> > Best wishes, George Ferzoco
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