Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-18
Italian Renaissance Features
Art 4 appreciation This Week
-Four Old Masters of
"COlden Age" Pre-.
scented by The Star.

The Golden Age" OF art, born with
1.-The Italian Renaissance and spread
throughout Europe and the rest Of the
world from Florence. the Cradle OF
Painting" is the feature this week of
The Stars art appreciation campaign.
Of to a flying start for the second
week of the 12-week program, The
Art Appreciation are presenting the
works of the worlds greatest painters.
Composing the second set Of the 48
famous paintings offered in the art
project are:
Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Creation of ADAM" by
Michelangelo.
Madonna Tempt" by Raphael.
The Duke of Ferrara," by Titan.
Feature Weekly Broadcast.
These artists and their work will
be the feature of the weekly radio
broadcast on the art campaign. to be
presented at 7:45 O'Clock tonight over
Station WRC, through the courtesy
of the National Brpadcasting Co.
Richard Lahey, principal of the
Corcoran School of Art. well-known
artist and art critic and member Of
the art jury for the last Corcoran
Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Oil Painting at the Cor
coran Gallery, will be introduced by
S. H. Kaufman of The Star and
interviewed on the Italian Renaissance
art period by James E. Chinn Of The
Star reportorial sta
Lahey will give many hun.an-interest
sidelights on the four old masters of
the Renaissance. Tonight's broadcast
will be the second of the weekly series
of broadcasts during the 12-week
campaign, conducted in cooperation
with the National Broadcasting Co.
The time and station for next week S
broadcast will be announce later.
Two Sets on Sale.
Two sets of paintings were on sale
today at the art booth in the business
office of The Star, on the first floor,
including the first group offered last
week and the second set, already
named, which went on sale today at
very nominal prices.
Saturday was rush day for the
booth and its clerks, the entire first
floor lobby being damned with patrons
shortly after the noon hour.
For the first time, Che art program
reached all Washington schools stimuli
taneously today with distribution of
sample prints and literature to teach
ers in the public elementary schools
and junior and senior high schools and
teachers colleges.
This distribution was authorized by
the District Board of Education, which
gave unanimous Endorsement to the
art campaign for its educational and
cultural value The teachers will call
the program tn the attention of their
pupils.
Brief Sketches Paintings.
Brief sketches of this weeks paint
ings, described along with the Italian
Renaissance in general by Bernard
Myers of New York University in the
second of the series of Lessons in Art
Appreciation, follow:
The Mona Lisa"-This is probably
the worlds most famous painting.
Hanging in the Louvre in Paris, it has
been seen by more people than any
other painting. The pleasing, fleeing
smile has defied description through
the centuries The Mona Lisa" and
THE Last Supper" both by Leonardo
da Vinci, are perhaps the two most
priceless paintings on earth. At auc-
ton, either would bring kingdom.
There are only half dozen undis-
puted Leonardos on record. Da Vinci
is said to have had the finest mind yet
given to man. He was an architect,
engineer, mathmetician, anatomist,
scientist, inventor, sculptor, poet and
musician. He invented an army tank
and made drawings of airplanes.
1.-The Creation of Adam
painting shows Jehovah about to touch
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