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Science illuminates art in Detroit’s celebration of Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance (English)
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The show, titled Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance Revealed, opens with the acquisition process, which was accompanied by great fanfare. The museum’s German-born director, Wilhelm R. Valentiner, who led the institution from 1924 to 1945, spent his summers collecting in Europe and spotted the painting in a gallery in London in June of 1930. Telegrams flew across the Atlantic between Valentiner and the Arts Commission, a board appointed by the city of Detroit to oversee the museum, leading to the negotiation of a purchase price of nearly $38,000 covered by municipal funds. (English)