Cleveland Art, September/October 2015

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  • Member Magazine
Published: August 25, 2015

In this issue of the members magazine: Painting the Modern Garden; Shadows and Dreams;  Return on Investment; Fra Filippo Lippi’s Saints; Cleveland Goes to Bratislava

Cover: painting of a bridge over a pond
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Shadows and Dreams

Photography was largely considered a commercial trade rather than an art form in the 19th century. Since a photograph was produced by a mechanical device—the camera—many people believed it was limited to a factual transcription of what fell before the lens and offered no opportunity for imagination...
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Fra Filippo Lippi’s Saints

Preserved in the galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art are two painted panels by one of the great masters of Renaissance Florence. They once formed a triptych with a large, now lost, central panel depicting the Adoration of the Christ Child. The triptych is well documented. It was commissioned by...

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