Word: gobelins
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...decorate its spacious social rooms, the opera ordered 13 new Gobelin tapestries. Not that there is a shortage of tapestries in Vienna-there are hundreds lying around in vaults-but museum officials refused to let any go. "First thing you know," said a grumpy museum spokesman, "people will be rubbing their cigarettes out on them." It hardly seems likely. For, in the words of the Metropolitan's Rudolf Bing, a Viennese himself, "The Vienna Opera means to the Viennese what women mean to Don Giovanni. It is the air they breathe, the food they eat, and the girl they...
Boucher's patroness was Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour, and the artist worked furiously to keep up with her demands and those of the court-decorations for chateaux, scenery for opera and theater, lush paintings of nudes, and tapestry designs for the revived Gobelin and 54 Beauvais works. But his talent for rendering sensuous and elegant women in symbolic attitudes is best seen in his drawings, where quick pencil strokes catch the freshness and spontaneity of his inspiration...
...ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with a Tintoretto, a Renoir and a Gobelin tapestry; Bank President (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Walther Moreira Salles is donor of a Picasso, a Degas and a Modigliani; Sugar Magnate Fulvio Morganti is down for a Utrillo; Financier Adriano Seabra gave a Titian. In all, persuasive Chato has roped in 381 donors, including nine banks, 38 industrial...
...case of the "lost" treasures came to light last night when the present Polish minister to Ottawa, Dr. Alfred Fiderkiewics, charged that valuable gold and silver threaded gobelin tapestries and other art works and historical momentos were "missing" when he took office here a few months...
...stares of Charlemagne and Saint Louis in the Luxembourg Palace, orators and translators droned on verbosely, while temporary chairman Georges Bidault listened politely from the sun flooded rostrum. Prime Minister Attlee did crossword puzzles. Molotov suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance-the atmosphere is blah. They drink hardly anything...