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...also produced, in the spirit of old-master quotation that ran through his silk-screened work in the early 1960s, a suite of variations on well-known paintings: Botticelli's Venus, that hardy standby of the Pop sensibility the Mona Lisa, and Gustave Courbet's rosy, meaty image of two lesbians-one of them Whistler's mistress-sprawled in amorous sleep. At times, as in All Abordello Doze 3, 1982, the degree of interference by overprinting, cutting and juxtaposition almost buries the motif in a landslide of variations, and yet Rauschenberg's close, laconic grasp...
...collection of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the authors of An Illustrated Life of Jesus, Richard I. Abrams and Warner A. Hutchinson (Abingdon; 159 pages; $35), have selected 94 works to fashion an elaborate and appropriately timed birthday card. From the Annunciation to the Ascension, works by Botticelli, Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt and dozens of lesser-known artists and craftsmen re-create the greatest story ever told and seen. Piety, passion and drama are conveyed in traditional mediums and styles. Jan van Eyck's Gabriel is a resplendent messenger in jeweled robe and peacock-colored wings...
Look quick! That Botticelli Venus is Aunt Marge...
...stores of Renaissance paintings in this city, defy casual study. The Uffizi Gallery contains one of Italy's largest collections of 14th and 15th century works--Botticini, Perugino Girlandaio, Albartonelli, Lippi, Uccello, and Roselli. No one hurries in the Uffizi, and some stand before a single painting, such as Botticelli's Pallade a il Centauro, for hours. Pallade, golden-haired and crowned with ivy, holds a centaur by the hair. She looks at his face with vivid sorrow; he hangs his head dolefully, mourning his entrapment with the lovely, longing adolescent...
...stores of Renaissance paintings in this city, defy casual study. The Uffizi Gallery contains one of Italy's largest collections of 14th and 15th century works--Botticini, Perugino Girlandaio, Albartonelli, Lippi, Uccello, and Roselli. No one hurries in the Uffizi, and some stand before a single painting, such as Botticelli's Pallade a il Centauro, for hours. Pallade, golden-haired and crowned with ivy, holds a centaur by the hair. She looks at his face with vivid sorrow; he hangs his head dolefully, mourning his entrapment with the lovely, longing adolescent...