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Staying clear of the High Renaissance masterpieces, the Lehmans on their regular summer trips to Europe sought out bargains to their taste, rapidly expanded the collection to include other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
Background: Born in Brussels on Jan. 25, 1899, Spaak, like his native land, is an amalgam of two widely divergent strains. His Flemish father was one of Belgium's best-known artists, a poet, playwright and director of the Brussels Royal Opera. His mother, a Walloon, was Belgium's first woman Senator, the daughter of one of the nation's great 19th century liberal leaders and the sister of a former Prime Minister...
...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...
...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...