Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style by James T. Vail, the Primavera stamp, larger than the average, was well worth the 3? the Post Office asked...
...Louis 8, Cincinnati 8, called at the end of 14th inning because of darkness. Only games scheduled...
...this cultural marathon Persia had ups & downs. She was conquered successively by the Greeks, Arabs and Mongols; she was sideswiped by nearly every artistic bandwagon that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...
...most famed Persian carpets, 2) 300 manuscripts and masterpieces of Persian miniature painting, 3) a comprehensive collection of 500 pieces of Persian pottery of all periods from 4000 B. C. to the present, 4) the most perfect specimens of Persian velvet known to modern times, 5) a newly discovered 14th-Century illuminated Shah-Nameh ("Book of Kings"), containing the only known portrait of the famous Mongol conqueror Tamerlane...
Many a painter of the U. S. scene smothers the characteristic flavor of U. S. types, objects and situations in a technical gravy that has little to do with the U. S. Painters like Grant Wood use a clear sauce distilled from 14th-Century Italian primitives. Painters like Thomas Benton use their own highly flavored, homemade ketchup. One painter who presents the U. S. scene without trimmings is Minnesota-born Arnold Blanch, 26 of whose bleak, overcast landscapes and figure-paintings drew Manhattan's gallerygoers last week to the Associated American Artists' Galleries...