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John XXIII has been on the throne of St. Peter only four months, but he is already the best-loved Pope of modern times. Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through...
...talk-you because of discipline and I because of protocol. It's about time we got better acquainted." He told the motorcycle cops: "Frankly, I would rather do without you. But you and I are both subject to rules and regulations, and we must try to make the best...
MANAGE as best you can, said Nature, and pushed me into existence. Thus the mild genius of 18th century French painting, Jean Honoré Fragonard, described his own beginnings. A child of Provence, Fragonard was raised in the soft sunshine, on vine-covered hills, with the Mediterranean and the mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait...
Mark Twain once remarked that he especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last...
...great Russian basso, Chaliapin was born and trained in Moscow, flew to the welcoming arms of Paris in 1925. There in 1929 he painted the austere countenance and long, strong hands of Sergei Rachmaninoff-possibly the best canvas in last week's show. Portraiture is Chaliapin's favored ground, but he tackles many things with equal zest, from laughing ballet dancers to glowing landscapes and stark religious works. Among his most recent canvases: a shockingly dramatic Crucifixion, as seen from the foot of the Cross, with knees twisted in pain and a face cloaked in shadow...