Word: eycks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled Adoration of the Lamb remained Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when two panels were sold to Prussia. By the Treaty...
Professor Panofsky of New York University, who is a visiting professor of Fine Arts at that University, will give a lecture on "Principles of Iconographical Interpretation Illustrated by some Van Eyck Pictures," on Monday, at 5 o'clock in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Museum. On Tuesday at the same time and place, he will give a talk on "Durer's Melancolia." Professor Panofsky is one of the outstanding critics and authorities of art in Europe, and is only recently arrived in this country...
President Blumenthal will have under his control an institution which last year spent $1,450,000 to maintain itself, owns 2,182 oil paintings including one Hubert van Eyck diptych, 25 Rembrandts, two Velasquez', four El Grecos, two Giovanni Bellinis, six Cézannes, seven Whistlers and the originals of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "The Horse Fair...
...Director Herbert Eustis Winlock placed on exhibition the most important purchase the museum has ever made out of its own funds, two panels joined together by hinges, bought after four years of stealthy negotiation from the Soviet Government: "The Crucifixion" and the "Last Judgement," generally attributed to Hubert van Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each 22¼ by 7¾ in.) do not belong together: they have hinted that no such person as Hubert van Eyck ever existed. Nobody has ever denied that the two panels have been among the greatest treasures of the Leningrad Hermitage Museum...
...Canada scoffed the Ten Eyck idea. Declared Oscar Earnest Fleming of the Canadian Deep Waterways & Power Association: "The people of Quebec and the Maritimes are intensely British and would object to being transferred like a lot of cattle." Quebec's Premier Taschereau, long a seaway critic, picked up the Ten Eyck proposal and patriotically brandished it as one good reason why Canada should reject the St. Lawrence treaty. At St. John's, Que., the Chamber of Commerce unanimously demanded that the U. S. give Canada all of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine north of the 45° parallel in exchange...