Word: flemish
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...Belle Epoque. But the prize for obsessiveness, were it to be given, surely belongs to Gregory Gillespie, 44, whose Self-Portrait in Studio, 1976-77, is rendered with maniacal detail−everything in place, every pore on the knobby hands and taut face a deliberate homage to the Flemish quattrocento, and the palette with its squidgy mounds of pigment (paint depicting paint as well as painter) turned into one of the most ar resting displays of realist bravura in recent American...
...coincidence? Or was something more sinister behind the high death rate in the 38-bed geriatric ward of the public hospital in the picturesque Flemish Belgian town of Wetteren? Early last year, some of the nurses assigned to the ward, presided over by a short, plump nun named Sister Godfrida, of the Apostolic Congregation of St. Joseph, decided to compile a secret diary about the peculiar goings-on there. In their record they listed not only the continuing deaths and the circumstances surrounding each one but also various incidents of what appeared to be extreme maltreatment of old people...
...decades before he died in 1970, Lugt knew more about his chosen subject than anyone else alive. His collection of Dutch and Flemish 17th century drawings-there are now 2,500 of them housed in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, which he endowed-is definitive. The present show at New York's Morgan Library, entitled "Rembrandt and His Century: Dutch Drawings of the 17th Century" and comprising only 132 items culled from the 2,500, conveys at least an idea of the collection's extraordinary range and quality. Lugt's taste...
...rare artist, at home with himself and his society. His orchestrations of the Christian, the mythic and the historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...
...freights of Flemish grain and English cotton...