Word: botticellis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner of the Prix de Rome at 21, Gussow learned in Europe "not how to paint, but how to love art. When I went over," he confides with some embarrassment, "I hadn't even heard of Botticelli." He stayed in Europe two years, devouring the museums, but it was not until he got back home that his own work seemed to take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends...
...island of Manhattan will find an island of traffic-free calm and beauty during the Christmas rush. Illuminated color transparencies of 25 Renaissance masterpieces in full size tell the Christmas story with remarkable fidelity. There are reproductions of paintings and frescoes by such masters as El Greco, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Gozzoli, Giorgione and Bellini. Among them is Raphael's Alba Madonna, shown here. TIME readers may remember seeing it in color in our Nov. 24 issue, for when Andrew Mellon paid the Russians $1,166,400 for it back in 1931, it was the largest sum ever paid...
...During her freshman year at Vassar, Brooke met Michael Thomas, a Yale sophomore whom she "loathed on sight." He wooed her persistently by effective intellectual maneuvers-"He'd sit as far away as possible from me in the taxi and read his term paper on Botticelli." In the summer of 1956, Brooke traveled with her family through Europe, met Mike in Paris and eloped with him two weeks later. "We didn't tell our families until September, by which time I was thoroughly pregnant." While Mike finished up at Yale, they lived in New Haven, "living literally...
...gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close together that a person can barely squeeze through. Some paintings lie higgledy-piggledy on tables and shelves Bronze statues are strewn about, cloaked in spider webs. There are works by Jan Brueghel Lucas Van Leyden...
...benign, handsome "Beau Dieu" in the central portal of Amiens Cathedral. Despite the growing intrusion of realistic detail, Giotto, as late as the 14th century, "did not copy the sky men see, but transmuted it into a sky charged with Christ's presence." But a century later Botticelli plunged into profane art with his sea-born Birth of Venus, and nymphs began competing with angels "and the Unreal with the City...