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There are some famous names, such as Donatello and Van Eyck; but most of the artists are anonymous, known only by such evocative titles as the "Master of the Frankfurt Garden of Paradise" or the "Master of the Hours of Rohan." The masters reported their share of cruelties and martyrdoms: but to a much larger extent, the exhibition reflects the courtly dolce vita of an age that, out of fear of the future, idealized the past and hid the present behind a facade of elegance. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga summed up the period best when he said, "It bore...
...Christine Margarethe of Hesse, 29, lissome niece of Britain's Prince Philip; by Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 32, insurance-broking brother of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia; after 5½ years of marriage, two children; on grounds of her adultery with London Art Restorer Robert Floris Van Eyck; in London...
...island of Manhattan will find an island of traffic-free calm and beauty during the Christmas rush. Illuminated color transparencies of 25 Renaissance masterpieces in full size tell the Christmas story with remarkable fidelity. There are reproductions of paintings and frescoes by such masters as El Greco, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Gozzoli, Giorgione and Bellini. Among them is Raphael's Alba Madonna, shown here. TIME readers may remember seeing it in color in our Nov. 24 issue, for when Andrew Mellon paid the Russians $1,166,400 for it back in 1931, it was the largest sum ever paid...
...deeply religious artist, but what struck his contemporaries and swept his influence across Europe was his liberating naturalism. His predecessors, in an effort to keep their religious themes on a properly spiritual level, tended to idealize their figures. Van Eyck had a passion for detail, and his people -whether saints or not-were complete individuals. Landscape and still life came into their own; light and shadow played a more subtle role; the way was open for the time when the everyday mortal would become a worthy subject...
Black Depressions. About the time that Van Eyck lay dying, Hugo van der Goes was born. In 1468 history records that he helped design the street ornaments in Bruges for the marriage of Charles the Bold to Margaret of York. He rose swiftly after that, carrying on the trend to greater humanization (see color). But Hugo van der Goes was obsessed by the belief that he was damned. At the peak of his fame he withdrew to a monastery, where kindly monks played sweet music to him when his black depressions came. He died in 1482 hopelessly insane...