Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their past. To their delight, this year the sentiment is being reciprocated by the loan to San Antonio's HemisFair of 13 masterpieces from Spain. The heavily guarded collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish culture is itself a confluence of influences: Latin, Visigoth...
Fairgoers who stand in awe before El Greco's gently swashbuckling Saint Bartholomew or his voluptuously spiritual Holy Family have double reason to be grateful. The government has announced that this is the last time such masterpieces will be sent out of the country. But when Spain's paintings return home next October after the closing of HemisFair, Texans will not be totally bereft. They can feast their eyes at the Virginia Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where a group of Spanish paintings is being built up by Algur Hurtle Meadows, the Dallas oil millionaire...
...least, thought the Miami Beach Music and Fine Arts Board. In 1963, John Bass, a retired sugar-company executive, offered the city his private collection of 100 works of art, including paintings attributed to Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Rubens, Botticelli, Goya and El Greco. The board urged the city council to call in outside experts to certify the paintings. But the council, loath to look a gift horse in the mouth, voted down the recommendation, spent $160,000 transforming the old public library into the Bass Museum...
...Kavalla, he faced a shattering situation. In its months in power, the junta had carefully placed junior officers loyal to it on all general staffs, just in case their commanding officers should prove too royalist. Now a young major named Nicholas Petanis had raced from a base on the Greco-Turkish border to Kavalla and brought a column of tanks with him. He and other junior officers loyal to the junta arrested the three generals who were the King's chief supporters. That ended Constantine's coup. The major gave the King a choice: return to Athens...
...century French paintings are its crowning glories, the museum also owns one of the top half-dozen Oriental collections in the U.S., a superlative selection of prints and drawings, and an impressive cross section of European paintings from the 15th century to the 17th century, topped off by El Greco's soaring Assumption of the Virgin. The rambling Italian Renaissance palazzo on Michigan Avenue enfolds an art school and the recent (1962) Morton wing for modern...