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...Adoration of the Shepherds (ca. 1612-1614), which he painted to hang above his own tomb. The central figure kneeling before the Christ child is, some scholars believe, an image of the painter. A man with similar features appears in other works, sometimes with the direct gaze typical of self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background of his works. A blurred view of its fortified walls can be seen at the foot of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (1608-1613), and he used it as a stand-in for Troy in Laoco...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, which concerns the Vermeer portrait of a delicate young woman with an intense gaze, was all sublimated passion and quiet decorum. The Lady and the Unicorn centers on the series of tapestries that today hang in Paris' Musee National du Moyen Age depicting a woman's seduction of a unicorn. Not surprisingly, the proceedings are more overtly carnal. The story begins in 1490 when the painter Nicolas des Innocents, whose appetites pointedly contradict his name, is commissioned by the wealthy Parisian Jean Le Viste to design six tapestries glorifying the nobleman's status at court...
...terrorist attack. But as police boats patrolled in Southampton last week and Gurkhas formerly from the British army provided security on board, private boats charged to take gawkers as near the QM2 as security would allow, and families were stopping their cars at a nearby point just to gaze at her. If public affection is any measure, the world's largest cruise liner looks well set for a long and happy life. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/New York City
...surfing _________ (major online auction beginning in “e-”) one day and I had always wanted a hobby, so I bought it and _________ ! (exclamation) I was a stamp collector,” says Nichols as he segued to a thoughtful pause and cast his gaze through the window at the dying rays of a _________ (sunset color) sunset. “Nay, I was a philetilist...
...self-orientation as well as self-study: not only a means of expression, but also a way of fitting ourselves into a larger system. If these two things are kept balanced as I write, then I feel much less danger of slipping into a completely self-absorbed gaze. My work takes shape not merely as a creation, but also—hopefully—as a contribution...