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Not until then did customs guards inspect the crates. Some of the most famed Renaissance pictures and sculptures were carried on the da Vinci. Among them were The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of Pope Paul III by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), Fornarina by Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), Deposition by Jacopo Robusti (Il Tintoretto*), Annunciation by Fra Filippo Lippi. There were also three stat ues of David by Michelagniolo Buonanroti. Andrea del Verrochio, Donate di Betto Bardi (Donatello). The exhibition starts on New Year's Day.
For Sale:
A square anvil upon which Colonial nightrider and jack-of-all-craft Paul Revere fashioned the silver mugs and dishes for which in Boston he was famed. On Dec. 28 it will go to the highest bidder at auction in the American Art Association —Anderson Galleries, Manhattan.
*Not to be confused with Painter Amedeo Modigliani (TIME, Nov. 11).