Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in his native Spain, Souto found his best inspiration in the old Spanish masters Goya, El Greco, Velásquez. In 1934 the Spanish Republican Government gave him a Prix de Rome, which lasted him until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. A Loyalist who had a brother in Franco's ranks, Souto didn't enjoy the war much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last...
...that yet." Later Dr. Nintchitch announced that Yugoslavia would respect all "public and open" commitments which previous governments had made; i.e., it would not respect any secret clause in the treaty. (Insiders said that the pact contained a clause creating a no man's land on the Greco-Serb border, where Germany would be allowed to concentrate motorized divisions.) Still later Dr. Nintchitch elaborated some more: Yugoslavia was returning to a policy of "strict neutrality" and was prepared to fight for it. Germany countered by ordering all German citizens to leave Yugoslavia at once. Herr von Heeren caught...
...bread-&-butter letter. He thanked the building's architects for the "great gilded spittoons which they have placed to hide as much of the paintings as possible," since "spittoons of Indiana's tobacco-chewing era are more appropriate to my murals, even when they hide them, than Greco-Roman statues or Mayan reliefs...
...portrait of a boy, The Torn Hat. Back Baynims were somewhat griped over the absence of Boston's own famed, facile society Portraitist John Singer Sargent. Retorted the Museum's Director George Harold Edgell: "In this collection, Sargent couldn't compete with Rubens, Velasquez and El Greco...
...that he was astigmatic, if not insane. When he died in 1614 his fame was already on the wane, and soon his greatest paintings were tucked away in dim sacristies and behind altars. The flashy, flattering portraits of brilliant Court-painter Velásquez became the rage, and El Greco was forgotten. Forgotten he remained for nearly 300 years...