Word: botticelli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Botticelli's Spring, $40 million...
...tente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough, was provided by the orchestra of society's pet pianist, Peter Duchin, who is Averell Harriman's godson. And even in the crush of Paris designs, Duchin's wife, Cheray, glowed like a Botticelli blonde on the half shell...
...makers tried. They snipped everything from chiffon to cotton to sensuous silk into triangles, trapezoids and squares. Givenchy and Balenciaga dappled the shapes with abstract slashes; Emilio Pucci colored them with wildly vibrant designs that looked like stained glass; lesser lights tried everything from polka dots to reproductions of Botticelli paintings. But even when the Mona Lisa was pulled flat over the hair and reefed under the chin, the result was strictly Ellis Island-that flattopped look, with a tail either drooping forlornly at half-mast or sticking out behind like the flight deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise...
Women enchanted the brush of Botticelli. Da Vinci is famous for one female smile, Whistler for his mother. Degas captured girlishness from gawky grace to the glamorous fall from it. "So why is it unusual that I paint women?" asks Willem de Kooning, at 60 the foremost U.S. artist still working vigorously in the abstract expressionist idiom...
...Treasury Ministry, will soon share in long-term loans of 857 first-rate paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in the cellar, is resplendent with Botticelli, Cranach, Tiepolo and Titian. There are scads of Flemish masters, but not a scrap of canvas from 19th century France, whose artists Hitler scorned as the fathers of decadent modernism...