Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight; his best canvases show the feeling of a real primitive; he is akin to the Siennese, a true Italian...
...representing the Holy Family and the other a classical scene. "Diana" by Tintoretto, a picture which Mr. Sachs lends annually to the Fogg for a period of six months, also appears in this gallery. John Nicholas Brown '22 has lent to the Museum an excellent picture by El Greco entitled "Saint Dominic." Most of the important paintings which were removed from this room to make space for the French exhibition have been returned from storage, among them the Ross Tintoretto...
...died but Boris lived on, to furnish one of the strangest case histories in the literature of music. Composed in 1874, it was until last year known to the world only in a prettified version as unlike that of the original as if Murillo had painted over an El Greco, as if Tennyson had rewritten William Blake. Rimsky-Korsakov, good friend of Moussorgsky, composer of Sheherazade, La Coq d'Or and Sadko, professor and purist, had been the one to perform this doubtful service for Boris. He ironed out the harshnesses, modified the harmonies, polished the scoring. Moussorgsky...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister and nimble witted "Grand Old Man" of Greece, arrived in Naples last week, journeyed to Rome, and was greeted cordially by L'Onorevole Benito Mussolini. The purpose of the visit was to sign a Greco-Italian pledge of friendship...