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DIED. Anthony Blunt, 75, impeccably proper curator of the British royal family's art collection from 1945 until shortly before he was publicly unmasked in 1979 as a onetime Soviet spy; of a heart attack; in London. As a scholar of 17th and 18th century European art, Blunt was a model of well-bred civility and fastidious integrity. But as a Cambridge don in the 1930s he recruited Soviet agents, and as a member of British intelligence during World War II he leaked information to the Soviets. Though he was allowed to continue advising the Queen until his retirement...
...Charleston dig, on the site of a future highway, has yielded valuable new evidence about 17th century living, experts said yesterday...
...National Gallery, paintings form 17th century Naples...
...took no pupils, held no salon and had little talent as a courtier. Yet by word of mouth, force of reputation and the example of four or five paintings he executed there, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completely changed the face of Neapolitan painting at the start of the 17th century. A few months after his second arrival in the city, this paranoid, violent homosexual genius was dead at 37, leaving two generations of painters from Naples to Brussels with a legacy to pick over...
...ordinary lifetime, one could not otherwise see in the same context. In short, there is a real reason for its existence that justifies the expense and risk of bringing the work around the world. Only in recent years, with a cluster of major exhibitions devoted to the 17th century-"France in the Golden Age" at the Met, Claude Lorrain at the National Gallery, Ruisdael at the Fogg, and a few others-have Americans been able to clear their minds of prejudices in favor of the quattrocento and see what pleasure the baroque period holds. This show carries that project further...