Volume 46, Number 7 · April 22, 1999
An Ardor for Armor
By James Fenton
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries 1998-January 17, 1999.
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 8,, Catalog of the exhibition by Stuart W. Pyhrr, by José-A. Godoy
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Abrams, 357 pp., $65.00
Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
by Stephen N. Fliegel
Cleveland Museum of Art/Abrams, 181 pp., $49.50
Arms and Armor in The Art Institute of Chicago
by Walter J. Karcheski Jr.
Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch/Little, Brown, (out of print)
We are witnesses here at a confluence of stereotypes. Hiram B. Otis, the American minister, has bought Canterville Chase, along with its furniture and ghost, 'at a valuation,' since he comes from 'a modern country, where we have everything that money can buy.' Because they are Californians, the Otis family are immune to the terrors of the English stately home. They clean the mysterious bloodstain from the library floor. They mock the efforts of the ghost to frighten them.
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