Word: albrecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finely detailed 16th century crucifix with figures of Christ and the thieves is similar to another crucifix and house altar made in Bavaria during the reien of its devout Albrecht V for his official Munich residence. On the other hand, an enchanting 17th century heart-shaped crystal pendant with the tiny figures of Eve and the serpent, is believed by Parke-Bernet's expert, John Hayward, to be either Italian or Spanish. One of the loveliest gems in the Gutman collection is a 17th century enameled gold votive crown by an anonymous Peruvian goldsmith. It was probably commissioned...
...panels between 1498 and 1504 portraying the lives of Christ and Mary for her private chapel. All but two were probably by Juan de Flandes, a Fleming whose sophisticated fusion of courtliness and naiveté, and languid, doll-like figures were much prized in the Northern European Renaissance. Painter Albrecht Dürer, when he saw the panels in 1521, exclaimed: "I have never seen the like for precision and excellence...
...prize for physics went to Hans Albrecht Bethe, 61, mainly for discoveries during the 1930s concerning the energy production of stars. A German-born scientist who fled the rising Third Reich and who has been teaching at Cornell University since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy emitted by stars results from two protracted nuclear processes during which hydrogen fuses into helium. Similar research placed Bethe in the front rank of atomic-era scientists such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer who gave birth to the Abomb...
...little more than four hundred years ago Albrecht Durer made a portrait of Erasmus but felt it necessary to protect himself by putting an inscription right in the painting: "If you really want to know what the man Erasmus is like, read his books." A book, either by or about the man, would give information gathered over a longer period than the interval presented in a single picture...
...Orient for adventurous performers. Most of the bookings are handled by Agent Joe Tomasi, now 28, who brought his first touring variety show into Saigon in the spring of 1964, and a year later formed the World Wide Talent agency with retired U.S. Chief Petty Officer George Albrecht. "The Vietnamese acts were terrible," Tomasi recalls, and he began flying out regularly to Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo to fetch in outside talent. Today, W.W.T. handles about half of the paid professional entertainment appearing at U.S. military clubs; last year the agency booked 14 acts from the outside (paying them...