Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catcher is a color portfolio of portraits of Christ, vividly demonstrating how men have altered Christ's image to accord with the temper of their times and of themselves. The portraits range from the sad ascetic of the earliest 2nd century drawings through the agonized Renaissance Christ of Flemish Painter Albrecht Bouts to the smiling companion of Contemporary Ohio Painter Ivan Pusecker...
...What precise, soft-spoken Dr. Richardson had to tell was news indeed. The small (only 8 ¼-in. by 5 ¼in.) painting that the museum had bought in 1925 for $18,000 had at last been identified. Its painter: Jan van Eyck, one of the most highly valued Flemish artists. "There is no longer any question," said Richardson triumphantly. "It is the work of one hand only, and that one hand is Van Eyck's." Authentication of the painting-St. Jerome in His Study, showing the 4th century scholar who made a new translation of the Bible into...
...game, and the French novel is a handbook and guide to its fine points. These are at least as intricate as the fine points of, say, lawn tennis, though perhaps not quite as wholesome. One of the most elegant sportswriters of L'amour is a 26-year-old Flemish-born Parisian housewife and mother named Françoise Mallet-Joris...
...Illusionist, the novel's red-headed heroine Hélène Noris is defeated when Papa Noris marries her Lesbian seductress Tamara in an effort to still the village gossips. As The Red Room begins, the trio is still under the same roof in the same Flemish provincial town, but the passion between the two women has cooled into ashes of distaste...
...wall as unsuitable for schoolboy eyes), Chrysler eased into collecting by searching out the buyers' markets: "When other collectors bought large canvases, I would buy small pictures. Later, when smaller paintings were more readily hung I acquired large ones. When interest lagged in English, Dutch and Flemish schools, I added them." In 1939 Collector Chrysler also set a U.S. auction record tor Cézanne paintings by paying $27,500 for the portrait of Madame Cézanne...