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MADONNA AND CHILD
With St. Catherine and St. John
The work of Giovanni di Agostino, 1320-1350

it is a delightfully humorous characterization. At any rate it is effectively decorative. 

Few bronzes are included in the collection, but those few are of rare quality. Of these, four are figures of Italian origin, one of which, a Venus after the Bath, is by Giovanni da Bologna, and a Sea Nereid on a Dolphin is in the style of Riccio, a Paduan sculptor of the 15th and 16th centuries. 

Of outstanding quality is a bronze Paschal candlestick, by this same Riccio, which was formerly in the collection of Prince Spada of Rome. It was exhibited for some time in the Ryks Museum, Amsterdam. William Bode regards it as one of Riccio's greatest works, and believes that it was made for the Gonzagas, Dukes of Mantua. It is one of those rare works of the early XVIth century on which were lavished all the resources of design possessed by these great artists of the Renaissance. 

A Cathedral-like Atmosphere

With objects of such quality to represent the sculptor's art; with tapestries that show the medieval devotion to religious themes; with ivories and enamels that compress into the space of a handlebreadth the character of a great architectural composition; with all these disposed with telling effect in one gallery, an atmosphere is created that has been likened to that of a cathedral. This illusion is enhanced as one glances at the gallery's west doorway, flanked on each side by a pair of splendid gold candlesticks, and sees beyond, in the gallery of Wade embroideries, rich hangings that suggest the dossal over an alter. 

The special exhibitions are peculiarly rich just now. In addition to these two outstanding galleries, the newly rearranged print gallery merits careful attention, and in the educational corridor and the Children's Museum is still to be seen the collection of Indian drawingss and dolls. A selection of historic brocades, damasks, and velvets, selected from the Wade Collection, is on view in the Textile Study Room, and the cases of soap sculpture divides interest with the Indian material in the Children's Room. 

Annual Meeting Held

A budget of $267,783.00 was approved, purchases of the greatest importance made, and officers for the coming year elected at the annual meeting of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Friday of last week. This budget shows an increases of less than 4 per cent over the operating expense of the present season. 

Definite announcement of the objects purchased cannot be made until later, except to say that among them is French Gothic abbot's stall of extraordinary beauty and importance. In fact, it is one of the finest

NOVEMBER 24, 1928