Word: eyck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he closed the $750,000 sale of Van Eyck's Madonna to the Frick Collection, he was pledged to secrecy for six months; within a matter of days, however, the big deal was the talk of 5 7th street. When an antique dealer accused him of blabbing about their business deals, Heinemann, a discreet man, indignantly denied the charge. "Well," he quoted the antique dealer as saying, "Rouseck at Wildenstein asked me why I was getting all those old paintings from you-said they had better ones at Wildenstein." Rouseck denied any knowledge of three wiretaps that were...
...Northern tradition of Van Eyck, making art a mirror of nature, also continued in Durer. In the series of "Madonnas" done between 1495 and 1511 there is the crispness and detail, that are associated with Durer's greatest powers of draughtsmanship. His capacity for fantasy as well as natural representation, a legacy of the gothic cathedrals, is evident in the drawings on apocalyptical themes (see cut). General religious discontent in Germany fed the imagination of the people. They felt particularly close to apocalyptical events which many suspected would occur in their own time. We notice too in St. Michael...
Harriman was also noted at Yale for his expertness as an oarsman. When he was a boy back at Arden, his father had hired the great Syracuse University crew coach, Jim Ten Eyck, to spend a month on the Harrimans' private lake teaching Averell and Roland to row. Averell was so good that, when Yale decided to use amateur coaches, he was assigned to coach the freshman crew. He wangled leave from classes, went to England to learn the long Oxford stroke, came home and introduced it successfully at Yale. When he became varsity coach, he appointed...
...nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living. Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) is a graduate of a Nazi concentration camp, a German as hard as such an education can make...
...point: the improvising geniuses of an age weak in formal faith can scarcely be expected to rival those of the distant past, who possessed both the strength of faith and the assurance of an accepted style. Though Christian art is not quite dead today, any comparison with Van Eyck's vital and assured 500-year-old masterpiece can make it seem...