Word: eyck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest loot: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb which was last week reported in Berchtesgaden...
...Tolnay got his appointment to the Institute in 1939. He left France with his wife on the day of French mobilization. His library-a fine one-had preceded him. Behind him was a European career marked by outstanding monographs on Breugel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, the brothers van Eyck, and brilliant lectures at the Sorbonne...
...conscious of his family's long association with the university. His father was secretary of the trustees, did yeoman work in coaxing $600,000 out of the late John D. Rockefeller to start the university in 1891. They also wearied of his continual feuding with Professor Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, who held that the Gospels were written in an Aramaic dialect of Jesus' time, and were later translated into Greek. Goodspeed maintains they were originally written in Greek. One of Goodspeed's greatest thrills came in 1927 when he found a rare 13th-century New Testament manuscript...
...Eyck and his northern followers painted not the imaginary, ideal world of Biblical legend, but the matter-of-fact scenes that they saw about them, picturing in almost superphotographic detail the chill landscapes, household furnishings, costumes and sharp-featured faces of their native Flanders...
...more exuberant fashions of the Italian Renaissance swept their homely, literal art from popularity. But before it had done so, Van Eyck and his immediate successors, Roger van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts, Hans Memling and Ger ard David, had made their mark on history as the first realists in European...