Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loner. Son of a painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna. Squarcione was a perfectionist who made his pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed like enamel. Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels...
French Composer Francis Poulenc has a favorite religious scene: the painting by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) in one corner of which a small rabbit crouches unaware of the tragedy being unfolded on the Mount of Olives behind him. It is the kind of light but not irreverent touch that Roman Catholic Poulenc himself strives for in many of his religious works. Last week the Boston Symphony introduced U.S. audiences to the latest and perhaps most contrast-filled of Poulenc's compositions-his Gloria, in which he says he tried "to write a joyous hymn to the glory...
Future performances include organist Andrea Marchal, July 27, and folksingers Oscar Brand and Joan Baez, Aug. 4. In last week's program, violinist Ruth Posselt and pianist Luise Vosgerchian presented a program of four sonatas...
...department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become a crack ocean diver, swam on the first team to reach the Italian liner Andrea Doria, 42 fathoms down off Nantucket...