Word: eyck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANHATTAN'S staid Frick Collection last week put on display the elaborately splendid painting opposite. Begun by Jan van Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...
SHERATON HOTELS, No. 2 U.S. chain (after Hilton) and still growing, took over another big hotel. Only a week after buying Albany's 400-room Ten Eyck Hotel for $3,750,000, it bought Chicago's 400-room Blackstone for about $4,000,000 from Arnold S. Kirkeby's National Cuba Hotel Corp. Sheraton's new total: 29 hotels in the U.S. and Canada...
...Central proxies and four safes (made by .Oilman Murchison's Diebold, Inc.) holding Young's. All the proxies, representing an estimated 5,600,000 shares (almost 90% of the 6,447,410 outstanding), were kept under 24-hr, guard by railroad police in Albany's Ten Eyck Hotel. There, three law professors named by the Central management* were in charge of counting votes and ruling on challenges. Working with them behind locked doors were more than a score of accountants, lawyers and official watchers from both sides...
...annual battle of fakes and frauds raged on in continental art galleries, the critics themselves became slightly embarrassed when an investigating commission reported that one of the world's most famous and priceless paintings, "The Ghent Altarpiece" by Jan Van Eyck, was not what it seemed to be on the surface. Paul Coremans, director of the Laboratoire Central des Musees de Belgique, said that many of the exquisite features of the painting which everyone had admired as the genius of Van Eyck were really the handiwork of some later dabbler who had painted over Van Eyck's work...
...historians once maintained that Antonello traveled to Bruges to discover the oil painting technique developed by Jan van Eyck. More likely he learned it in Naples, from a copyist of Flemish paintings. For a year (1475-76) he taught the technique in Venice, where even the great Giovanni Bellini was eager to learn from him. What Antonello brought to Bellini (and through him, to Titian, Giorgione and Italian art in general) was nothing less than a new tool for rendering light. Having accomplished that, he returned to Messina...