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Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, by the University of Birmingham's E. K. Waterhouse, begins with the age of Holbein and Henry VIII, moves on through Van Dyck and Hogarth to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough and the 18th century classicists. Backing up the text are 192 pages of black & white reproductions...
Upstairs, they opened more windows as escape hatches behind them, passed by portraits by Van Dyck, paintings by Poussin, frescoes by Ingres. Into the tiny chapel they went, and headed directly for the altar, where two pictures hung: on the right, a small (28 in. by 35 in.) Infant Jesus, believed to be a Rubens; on the left, Angel Playing Violoncello, attributed to Raphael. Down came the paintings, frames and all. From concealed drawers the thieves took finely wrought vestments and a gold wafer dish. Then out they went, as silently as they had come. Paris newspapers estimated their choosy...
...Western world, in its scholarly moments, remembers St. Jerome as the learned ascetic who translated the Old Testament into serviceable 4th century Latin-his Vulgate remains the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. Medieval and Renaissance artists (including Raphael, El Greco, Dürer and Van Dyck) have handed down a stock portrait of a calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have...
...masters in England. The present duke has never bought a picture, but last week he had a cure for generations of collecting. With Woburn collapsing from dry rot and taxes, he had just auctioned off 200 of his less important old masters, including paintings by Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Murillo. Gross sales...
...best of Van Dyck's portraits would live as long as the paint stayed on the canvas. Seen in the cold, impersonal surroundings of the Koninklijk Museum last week, they looked a little ill at ease, for they had been intended to grace warmer, more elegant worlds. But the paintings themselves had warmth and elegance enough to make 17th Century history, and to make the people who strutted through it come alive...