Word: botticelli
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Some of its contents are both well known and justly famous: the majestic St. Jerome as a Cardinal by El Greco, Giovanni di Paolo's exquisite description of the medieval cosmos, The Expulsion from Paradise, Rembrandt's Portrait of Gérard de Lairesse, a Botticelli Annunciation. Others are perhaps less familiar - Ingres's Portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, one of the supreme moments in 19th century art; a Sassetta Temptation of St. Anthony; Petrus Christus' Saint Eligius and assorted Flemish treasures; a splendid array of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern...
...museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish...
...neck, Maureen Dean, 28, became familiar to millions of TV viewers as she sat stage right of husband John Dean III at the Senate Watergate hearings. Wanting to avoid unwelcome public attention since then, "Mo" has changed her hair color to light brown and the style to modified Botticelli angel. Trouble is, she plans to show off her disguise on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Yet another hair style will then presumably be in order so that she can try again for anonymity...
Fidelity to nature was not something new, but no one really expected the extent of the early Pre-Raphaelites' imitating nature. Their subject matter was drawn from the Bible, Greek mythology, and, true to their medieval inclinations, Arthurian legend. Stylistically some of the human figures might look like Botticelli angels or Cranach diptychs. Yet the landscape was always painstakingly drawn from real life. They used magnifying glasses to paint weeds properly; they waited patiently year after year for the return of the apple blossoms to complete a single canvas; they would spend nights painting by a small candle in order...
...rate artists. Japanese buy names, not quality." Even the patriarchal trading houses of Japan are in on the act -sometimes with depressing results, as when the huge Marubeni Corp. added art to its "general trading" department (along with cement, cameras and sundry goods) and got stuck with a dubious Botticelli at $500,000. "I still don't know anything about this business," admits the Marubeni staffer who was shifted from exporting Japanese toys to importing European...