Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Family" of Murillo a fine picture in excellent condition, is first recorded in the possession of Admiral Eliab Harvey, who commanded the "Temeraire" at the Battle of Trafalgar. Its composition closely, though not exactly, resembles one by the same artist in the Wallace Collection, but is a finer work...
...Gang's All Here. Artist Russell Patterson designed the costumes, Oscar Hammerstein II helped the direction, Colyumist Russel Grouse wrote the book, Tilly Losch staged the ballet. The cast includes: luscious Gina Malo (Sons O' Guns); red-headed Zelma O'Neal (Good News); silly Ruth Tester (Second Little Show); the white-faced team of Shaw & Lee, droll Tom Howard and ingratiating Ted Healy. And seldom has wealth been more hopelessly, tastelessly squandered...
...that unending pursuit Dr. Michelson has been stimulated by the same feeling for beauty that has made him also a violinist of exceptional skill, an artist whose sketches and water colors were exhibited last winter at his University (of Chicago...
Gleyre was born at Chevilly of French Swiss origin in 1806 and died in Paris in 1874. His early training was begun in Lyon, where he studied under an artist named Bounefond and in 1825 he went to Paris to begin his major training. In 1828 he travelled in Italy, copying Giotto frescoes in Padus, visiting Florence and Rome. In the latter places he spent four years, and in the year 1833 was represented as an exhibitor in the Paris' Salon...
...great series, "The Caprices," "Disasters of War," "Proverbs," "Bull-fights," and "Bulls of Bordeaux." Especially interesting are the "Disasters of War" series, which was inspired by the horrors accompanying the Napoleonic Wars in Spain during Goya's lifetime, and the "Bulls of Bordeaux" prints, which were done when the artist was nearly eighty...