Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S new series of hidden art masterpieces derives from many sources, including the travels of Associate Editor Alexander Eliot, who has made four thorough explorations of European painting, sculpture and architecture, quests that uncovered many works of genius not listed in the tourist guides. In Spain last year Eliot visited the monastery of Montserrat. After long discussion with the monks, he was admitted to the cloister, a rare privilege. While his wife waited patiently outside, Eliot studied the monastery's art collection, stood entranced before Caravaggio's Saint Jerome. On his return, TIME got permission...
...brain behind the big b.o. caper is Joseph E. (for Edward) Levine, 53, a onetime Boston newsboy who beat his way out of the slums by chasing a rapid dollar with indiscriminate energy. Salesman, shopkeeper, restaurantman, driving instructor, art-theater owner-Levine tried them all. Then he drifted into movie distributing, and his talent for what he calls the "big, big sell" began to pay off. It is a talent for recognizing the odd and often awful stuff that the public can stomach, buying it, and then peddling it behind a rolling barrage of ads and publicity gimmicks that have...
...Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints for the sheer joy of it in a highly emotional style, blandly ignoring the arrows of sophisticates who find his art old-fashioned and crude...
...thousands who visit Montserrat, only a handful of men (women are forbidden) is allowed to penetrate the monastery cloister, where a splendid art collection has been formed in the Virgin's honor. Among the hidden masterpieces on the cloister walls, Caravaggio's St. Jerome is perhaps the most compelling...
...Jerome became a man of letters (Greek and Latin) in Rome, took ship for Antioch. There he dreamed that he was brought before the judgment seat of Christ and ordered to identify himself. He said that he was a Christian, but this was denied: "Thou liest. Thou art a Ciceronian, for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies of his life to correcting...