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...those acquainted with Spanish ballet, Jose Greco and his troupe will provide an evening of exciting, colorful entertainment. For Greco is a precision craftsman and an agile, graceful dancer as well. And his company is one of the best of the few performing Spanish dances in this country today...
...museum annually, and their particular pride & joy is Francisco de Zurbaran's Monk with a Skull, which cost only $3,000 in 1941. The pink-stuccoed De Young Museum, in beautiful Golden Gate Park, draws a million people a year; their favorite, judging by reproduction sales, is El Greco's stormy St. John the Baptist...
...Greco found realism a bore, and scorned the restraint that made Zurbaran a minor master. To be great, he needed neither. The shapes El Greco painted were generally shaky and his colors were often curious. More concerned with spirit than with matter, he merged the two in pictures as moving as any ever painted...
Among the paintings on exhibition are El Greco's "Fray Felix Hortension Palavicino," Van Der Weyden's "St. Luke Painting the Madonna," and Titian's "St. Catherine of Alexandria...
...glories of Greco-Roman art is the Venus Callipyge (Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks). The Greeks would have laughed themselves sick over the "dwindled-down derriere"*-and no doubt found a word...