Word: flemish
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...major postwar American novel that is still largely unknown and unappreciated. In nearly 1,000 pages, the then 33-year-old author took on the godless 20th century. Through his hero, a man who turned from the priesthood to become an artist and then an expert forger of old Flemish masters, Gaddis spun the platonic metaphysics of reality and imitation into exciting fiction...
...Rembrandt's Portrait of Gérard de Lairesse, a Botticelli Annunciation. Others are perhaps less familiar - Ingres's Portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, one of the supreme moments in 19th century art; a Sassetta Temptation of St. Anthony; Petrus Christus' Saint Eligius and assorted Flemish treasures; a splendid array of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern Europe. Among the drawings- which, at the time of Lehman's death, was one of the greatest collections in private hands in the world - are such rarities as two highly finished studies by Rogier...
...then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just a few of the details of just one air drop, seen like a close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries the dead bird with him: half talisman, half future meal. A British colonel calls his men to him with a copper hunting horn. Bagpipes play Blue Bonnets. The inmates of a bombed mental institution, clad in white robes, float through the surrounding woods...
...social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style throughout his long life, in the face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return from the Flight Into Egypt on a Flemish engraving after Rubens. By the time he died, just before the fall of the dynasty, Mu'in was the only significant traditional artist left. Persian painting had been exposed to a variety of new influences, but the social fabric was too weak to support the emergence of a genuine fusion...
...members of Otrabanda-Sweenie excepted-are all in their mid-20s, former drama students at Antioch College under the tutelage of Flemish Playwright and Director Tone Brulin. When Brulin moved from Antioch to the Caribbean island of Curasao, a group of his devoted students joined him, and in 1971 they formed Otrabanda (named for the black residential quarter of Curasao-known as "the other side"). After returning to the U.S., the company employed Brulin's brash, blunt, highly physical and often noisy techniques mainly on tours to colleges and universities. "We played to very elite audiences," says Otrabandist David...