Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STILL LIFES-Schweitzer, 958 Madison Ave. at 75th. The stimulus of still life is ages old, the artist's response to it always new. Persuasive testimony to the fact: a collection that begins with Vanderhamen, a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestry who worked in Madrid more than 300 years ago, embraces Ruoppolo, Bernard, Lebasque, Marie Laurencin (a pink bouquet of roses on wood believed to be her only extant still life), Pechstein, Hartley and others, concludes with a contemporary Spaniard, Josep Roca. Through March...
...FLEMISH MASTERS-Duveen, 18 East 79th. No Rembrandts, but no letdown either, because in this show Rembrandt's countrymen outdo themselves: Portrait by Van Dyck, Nymph by Rubens, The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch, The Madonna and Child with Angels by Hans Memling. Sundry other splendors. Through March...
...Dutch and Flemish paintings, including 33 Rembrandts, and French paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries...
Hippolytus, by legend a Roman legionary converted to Christianity, was sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses during the 3rd century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
...called Flemish primitives were actually the first to master some of the subtler techniques of oil painting. From the triptych's wood panels, prepared with white lime, light flashes through glistening layers of oil pigments as if from the depth of the landscape. But the artist depended on more than radiant color to entrance his viewers. He extended the action into the flanking panels, breaking boldly out of the boxy frames. The turning necks of tugging horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three...