Word: doree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard all there was to hear, in Paris, about Gustave Dore, the enormously popular and prolific illustrator who most influenced his own art. He reached Paris six years too late (1889) to see Dore. Bouguereau was one of his teachers...
...artistic sensibilities of Joseph Esposito, 14-year-old Italian of the Dore Elementary School in Chicago, were upset in his classroom by a chromo of George Washington. So he saved $85 by selling ice cream, privately commissioned an artist to copy the Stuart portrait of Washington which he had seen in the Chicago Art Institute. Last week he presented the oil painting to his school. He is behind in his studies, but he has given boards of education, throughout the land, something on which to ponder...
...dore ou rembrunit Ic tableau...
Dante's Inferno. Dore rather than Dante was the libretto employed for this extraordinary study of home life in hell. All the writhing agonies of the Dore decorations are transplanted and pricked with pins to make them wriggle. Showers of fire, bubbling pitch, blood-stained harpies are industriously pitch-forked together for the discomfiture of most of the prominent sinners of History. It is all supposed to be the dream of a very wicked business man who fell asleep over a copy of Dante. Except for sinners who have the misfortune to be selfconscious, the film is respectfully recommended...
Athletes of 14 European nations gathered in Paris for the International Students' Athletic Meet at the new Porte Doreé Stadium. Final score: France 107, Italy 80, Czecho-Slovakia 70. The individual star was Charley Paddock, of California, only American competing. In four days he broke one world's sprinting record and equaled four others...