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Swedish & Swahili. Pinto, who had hunted spies in World War I, had first-rate qualifications for his job. He could ask, look and listen in Dutch, Flemish, English, French, German and Italian, and also had "a competent working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Rumanian and Swahili." For places, faces and cases, Pinto's memory was tenacious: he can still remember "not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and at what time of day they arrived." Stored in his mind like a library of microfilms were detailed pictures...
Author d'Eaubonne affects to have translated her novel from the 16th Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...
Next stops for The Rake (in Italian, French, Flemish and German versions): Milan, Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Cologne, D¨usseldorf. U.S. production? Stravinsky has not yet decided where or when...
Bosch was a sad, pious man with a consuming interest in the sins and stupidities of his fellows, and alternated debunking caricatures, such as The Magician, with huge, opalescent nightmare pictures which foreshadowed surrealism. The neat realism that characterized Flemish painting was as foreign to him as it was to the early masters of the Italian Renaissance...
...Flemish painting," Michelangelo is supposed to have jeered, "is to women's taste, especially the old and the very young, and for monks, nuns and all distinguished people who are not susceptible to true harmony. In Flanders they paint principally to render, deceptively, the outward appearance of things, and especially subjects which bring rapture or are irreproachable...