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...sequel to Rebel Angels, but not one which requires that you read the first book. As usual Davies begins with a brilliant premise, intriguing characters and a philosophical question that is compelling. What was the spirit which motivated Francis Cornish, the eccentric but brilliant Canadian art critic and collector, to lead a life divorced from this hollow world? But as Davies weaves his spell one gets the feeling that he suddenly realizes that he has bitten off a bit more than he can chew in 430 pages and decides to hurry the tale to its end so he can start...
...THIS POINT Davies' story falls apart. Essentially Davies dumps poor Cornish back in Canada and treats us to a perfunctory conclusion. Cornish becomes an eccentric collector; Cornish makes a few friends; Cornish deeply hurts one of his dear friends who then kills himself; Cornish dies. They are all very unsatisfying, these brief sketches of the elder Cornish, and they lead us nowhere. The crescendo of the story, which amounts to one of Cornish's dear friends asking him for money to buy one of Cornish's own medieval-style masterpieces falls very flat...
Favorite hobby: T-shirt collector...
...thieves will not be able to ransom the pictures to an insurance company, the frequent fate of stolen art treasures, because the Marmottan could not afford the enormous insurance premiums on its permanent collection. Police doubt that the intention is to sell the purloined paintings to a collector, because their fame makes them, as a French journalist put it, "about as negotiable as the Eiffel Tower." One possibility is that the robbers are terrorists who hope to exchange the pictures for a captured colleague. Said Police Superintendent Thierry Boulogne, who is involved in the case: "No one hypothesis is being...
Sackler, a New York physician, scientist, medical publisher, and art collector, has given vast quantities of time and money to institutions and museums around the world, including $10.5 million to the Harvard University Art Museums...