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...Cezannes Collector Barnes brought back with him last week were the 74th and 75th to be added to the Barnes Foundation, which includes the largest collection of Cezannes in the world. Few U. S. citizens have had a chance to see them, for the Greco-Roman temple outside Philadelphia that houses the Barnes Foundation is surrounded by an eight-foot iron fence, guarded by savage dogs. Only specially invited guests may view his pictures, and not a few of them have been bodily ejected from the building when their appreciation of what they were shown did not seem...
...19th century French painter who is famous for the distinctive yellow coloring in his pictures which are being exhibited throughout the country is (1 Monet, 2 Picasso, 3 van Gogh, 4 La Forge, 5 El Greco...
...painting by the famous 16th century artist Domenico Theotocopuli, known as El Greco, has been anonymously donated to join two other pictures by the same painter already owned by the Fogg Museum...
...Greco was a Greek painter who founded a "Spanish" school, and lived from 1548 until 1614, or slightly later. Coming under the influence of Titian in Italy for a time, he later settled in Toledo, supported by the patronage of Philip II of Spain, and in his later life produced some remarkable works of a religious nature...
...cost Frick $475,000. Round the corner hangs another portrait by another great countryman who for a time tried to paint in a way Velasquez did later, not realizing that he had spiritual gifts far greater than technical slickness: a portrait of the Italian commander Vincentio Anastagi by El Greco...