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Where, then, should a painter stop? Jan van Eyck took his scrutiny down to the limit of detail where the smallest legible form seems governed by a single hair of the brush: a painter's metaphor of the universal eye of God, marking the sparrow's fall. Perhaps that option is not open to a modern artist since the assumptions behind it no longer exist. In any case, Raffael (who, like any other young artist in New York in the '50s, was affected by Abstract Expressionism) wanted to keep handwriting-the visible gesture of the brush, done...
...more subterranean nuclear explosions is "absolutely out of the question," says U.S. Senator Floyd Haskell of Colorado, who along with others is concerned about triggering earthquakes. "I just don't know what would happen seismically after you've wracked the earth 140 times," says Thomas Ten Eyck, Colorado's Director of Natural Resources. In addition, Denver Geologist David Evans believes that the blasts would create subterranean radioactivity that would sooner or later seep into the Colorado River system-and contaminate the drinking water of 27 million people in seven states...
Some of the reattributions were, in fact, long overdue. Everybody knew that Hubert van Eyck was a carver and maker of frames. So the two wings of a triptych attributed to him could not possibly be his, but presumably were the early work of his young brother...
...drew to an end, many believers thought that they were on the brink of the seventh day of Creation, and trembled in expectation of the Second Coming. German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists. The "Millennial Dawn" group expected the end in 1914; they are now the Jehovah's Witnesses...
...swell and vibrato. But, here it is necessary to keep in mind that there is substantial historical evidence in support of all that Brueggen does, and that the degree of freedom in regulated in accordance with the style of composition. 'Thus, while the unaccompanied van Eyck Variations on "Amarilli" were played quite freely, the more strictly constructed Bach sonata received an appropriately less rhapsodic treatment...