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...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...
...west of the Alleghenies, and made off with some of the art treasures inside. Among the nine paintings stolen: The Flaying of St. Bartholomew, attributed to Rubens, The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin, attributed to Murillo, and The Descent of the Holy Ghost, attributed to one of the Van Eyck brothers...
Restoring an old master is always a ticklish job. When Belgian authorities announced last fall that they were planning a major cleanup job on the 15th Century Adoration of the Lamb by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, they drew a chorus of protests. The Lamb is Belgium's No. 1 art treasure. It had already suffered through 500 years of wars, fires, thefts* and the ministrations of countless well-meaning artist-restorers...