Word: donatello
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...that would surface in his own figures from the late '20s on. Cezanne's ponderous and sculptural Bathers spoke to his own obsessions with the reclining figure. Archaic sculpture of every kind, especially Mayan and Aegean, fortified his lifelong interest in totems and sentinel figures; and then there were Donatello and Michelangelo, the painted figures of Masaccio and, perhaps most challenging to him in his maturity, the sculptures of Giovanni Pisano in Siena and Pisa, not far from the marble quarries at Forte dei Marmi, where he took to working during the summers...
Throughout his long life, and for 150 years after his death, George Stubbs (1724-1806) was known as a horse painter. Never mind the Parthenon frieze, the Marcus Aurelius, the equestrian portraits of Verrocchio or Donatello, or any of the rest of the vast repertory of equine imagery in Western art: horse painting, like "sporting" art generally, tends to be seen as a minor style of aesthetic tailoring, shaped to reflect the blunt amusements of a class not much liked by connoisseurs. Painters like Sir Alfred Munnings, who filled canvas after canvas with accurate replications of poised fetlocks and lobb...
...tycoon husband. The don also finds out that Fletcher is a front man for John P. Harrigan, godfather of Boston's Irish Mafia, whose laundered money is being used for suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted...
...future, acting out an existence that is worse than old-fashioned--it is dead. She sparkles beautifully, like a jewelled kinetoscope, cascading through the same wistful images at the drop of a penny-word. Amanda mothers her children, Tom and Laura, with the artifice of a rebel Donatello creating paens to an obsolete god of refinement and good living. Deserted by her husband, "a telephone man who fell in love with long distance," she is a "Christian martyr," a saintly hen, a charming and troublesome relic...
...mildly, post-Freudian. But the innovations of the past 40 years' art-the movements, polemics and epileptic spasms that form the twilight of the avant-garde-have not touched it at all. Against all odds, Balthus paints as though the tradition that runs from Donatello to Courbet had never broken. For that reason alone, any Balthus show compels interest; and the group of 24 paintings and drawings, ranging from 1934 to 1977, that went on view last week at Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery is doubly fascinating, being the first view Americans have had of Balthus' newest...