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...newly renovated Champs-Elysées store, there's a chance to indulge in the chic and the cultural under one roof. Visitors have the option of being taken to the gallery in the all-black elevator pictured here or using a separate entrance at 60, Rue de Bassano. Upon arrival, they can expect to see modern art Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with...
...major paintings by Titian himself, along with about 200 drawings and prints. For comparison, there are a further 200 or so works by the Venetian artists who shaped him -- Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini -- and by those who were inspired by him. The latter group, ranging from Veronese, Tintoretto and Jacopo Bassano in Venice to Savoldo in Brescia and Dosso Dossi in Ferrara, is large, since Titian was one of the half a dozen or so most influential painters who ever lived. Among Venetian artists of the cinquecento, only Lorenzo Lotto, that great independent, resisted the pressure of his style...
...makes a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't appearance among swipes of black and reddish-brown on the bare canvas ground, seems to reflect Winslow Homer's The Fox Hunt. Among the later paintings are versions of a Titian portrait, of a Flight into Egypt by Jacopo Bassano, and of a Manet still life: For E.M., 1981, in which the colors and placing of fish, copper pot and black wall remain as gleams and traces after the objects themselves have gone...
...especially in Rome, when he was alive. Other exhibitions have focused on how the artist influenced 17th century painting all over Europe. This one shows the painting that influenced him when he was growing up--and the visual pedantry he had to contend with. Except for Lotto, Tintoretto and Bassano, and some beautiful works by Annibale Carracci, Adam Elsheimer and Guido Reni, most of this is deadwood and of interest mainly to specialists. Moreover, the climactic efforts of Caravaggio's career, like the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Malta (which must be the most sublimely concrete work...
...masterpiece of large-scale spontaneity, would appear from a church in, of all places, England's New-castle-upon-Tyne, where it was long assumed to be a copy? Best of all, one sees the art in depth and in context: a full room of Lotto, another of Bassano, 13 Tintorettos, 20 Titians, 15 Veroneses, and so proportionately...