Word: gautier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' one-act play, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (which later became his three-act allegory, Camino Real) stars Martin Sheen as Kilroy, Lotte Lenya as the Gypsy, Hurd Hatfield as Jacques Casanova and Carrie Nye as Marguerite Gautier. Repeat...
...belongs the credit generally given to the French impressionists of being the first to paint finished landscapes in the open air. The results were revolutionary. When the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt's sun-drenched canvas, Strayed Sheep, was displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary he kept reads...
...such a precise, scientifically honest approach, Daubigny was criticized by some of the best brains of his times. In 1861, the French author Théophile Gautier tut-tutted Daubigny, said that his paintings were just "rough drafts." He continued: "It is really too bad that this landscape painter, who possesses such a true, such a just, and such a natural feeling, is satisfied by an impression and neglects details to this extent." Scornfully, Gautier noted that the brushwork was "merely spots of color juxtaposed...
Built on the rise of the Guadarrama mountain range 31 miles from Madrid, El Escorial casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish...
...Descartes (the 1848 revolution). What never changed was the stunning output of famous men. Painters Degas, Delacroix and Géricault went there; so did Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. Louis-le-grand taught Writers Victor Hugo, Charles Peguy, Theophile Gautier, Paul Claudel and, more recently, Jean-Paul Sartre. The poet Baudelaire was aptly pegged ("somewhat bizarre charm") before being expelled for refusing to unhand another boy's note in class (he swallowed it). Louis-le-grand produced Bankers Henri and Alphonse de Rothschild; Sweden's King Oscar II, France's President...