Word: artes
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...Phillips is the Frick of Washington, and Duncan Phillips, its founder, had a sensibility light-years removed from the disgusting scrimmage of raw capital that the art market has now become. He was a scholarly aesthete, and one of his firm beliefs (about which he published a book in 1937) was that the Venetian cinquecento was one of the essential sources of modern art: from its prototypes eventually came the measured sense of "luxury, calm and pleasure" that was one of the marks of the School of Paris. The Pastoral Landscape is, among other things, an homage to this idea...
Artists, often quite dissimilar ones, share common sources. The themes of pastoral delight, installed in Venetian art by Giorgione (represented here with one rare, very rubbed drawing) and given monumental form by Titian, spread south and north through the influence of the Giorgionesque engravers Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Watteau copies one Campagnola landscape; Rubens takes a motif from another, Rembrandt from a third. These hard, wiry- lined little engravings, with their slightly metallic nudes and sudden dark explosions of vegetation, are to the circulation of ideas about landscape what Marcantonio Raimondi's copies after Raphael are to the human figure...
...never been in better shape," says Chief Usher Gary Walters, whose staff of 93 chases the dust tracked in by a million and a half tourists a year. The thought is echoed by curator Rex Scouten, who presides over the 38,000 pieces of art, furniture and tableware in the White House collection...
...ART: Surveying the ideal landscapes of Arcadia...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph Hoglund...