Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate artists, the Clark show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing St. Andrew, done in contrasting hues of grey, blue and green. The El Greco, now shown in the U.S. for the first time, is one of the most important acquisitions made since...
...Fresh Standout. In two rooms alone there were 19 Rembrandts. including a masterfully calm and triumphant self-portrait and the reverent, mystical Head of Christ. In other rooms, there was a breath-taking assemblage of masterpieces by Velasquez, Goya and El Greco (including his stark, disturbing View of Toledo*) that could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard...
...Pinocchio memorial. Tempted by so grand a prize (1,500,000 lire), 84 sculptors and architects sent in projects: merry Pinocchios, realistic Pinocchios, sad Pinocchios, surrealist Pinocchios. Last week the prize jury announced its decision: it would split the award money between Painter Venturino Venturi and Sculptor Emilio Greco, build not one but two Pinocchio memorials...
Prizewinner Venturi, 35, a specialist in murals, submitted a plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...
...years Las Vegas has become such a glittering entertainment center that Variety now finds it necessary to keep a full-time correspondent in residence. On any night, the Strip offers the tourist such big names as Danny Kaye, Lauritz Melchior, Betty Hutton, Ezio Pinza, Milton Berle and the Jose Greco Dancers. The stars, of course, are just an added attraction, gold-horned Judas goats who lure the herds of tourists to the gaming tables. "We're just the highest-paid shills in history," says Tallulah Bankhead. "Why do we do it? Dahling, for the loot, of course...