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...November, rehearsals a month ago. For the final rehearsal week, all other performances were canceled. It was necessary: the opera has some 18 scenes, uses specially filmed movie footage (doves, clouds and scenes of violence) plus so-odd full-color still projections (including El Greco's Toledo and Bruegel's The Fall of Icarus'). The cast included a chorus of 100, 48 solo parts and some 150 extras (redskins, sailors, Mexican gods...
...Early Holland, a landscape attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Younger (1564-1638), valued by Cleghorn at $2,000. It was probably painted much later, says Eckhardt: "I would not hang this picture in my own home or anywhere...
...Paris, practiced most of the artistic isms then current there. Eventually he came to the conclusion that the only way to achieve universality is by picturing what one knows well. He returned to his own country-boy beginnings for inspiration -and came to be hailed as a Bruegel of the Corn Belt. July Hay, one if his best pictures, suffers from a finicky foreground and stagy middleground, yet shows a solid skill and assurance...
...masterfully calm and triumphant self-portrait and the reverent, mystical Head of Christ. In other rooms, there was a breath-taking assemblage of masterpieces by Velasquez, Goya and El Greco (including his stark, disturbing View of Toledo*) that could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard Manet's great, sea-fresh Boating were standouts...
...century harpsichord music to set the mood for the show, followed by a recorded lecture. On exhibit were sixteen 15th to 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including such masterpieces as Hieronymous Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony, Aelbert Cuyp's Horsemen Halting on a Road, Pieter Bruegel's The Carnival. Next week the artmobile will take off on a statewide tour (possibly three years) with stops planned so that no Virginian will have to travel more than 15 miles to see the show. At the wheel: Curator-Driver William Gaines, Virginia Museum art expert who trained...