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...artist to whom Tiepolo was apprenticed gave him little more than a routine training, but the boy taught himself enough to get a major commission in 1715 at the age of 19. He married a sister of his contemporaries, Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi, and life became one success after another...
...similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's gently shaded Venetian Scene...
...paintings included Rembrandt's Old Man Seated, Rubens' Flight Into Egypt, Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...
...major operation. For the whizzing variety of incident must be duplicated by musical, visual, verbal, choreographic variety of treatment. Seldom, thanks to Scene Designer Oliver Smith and Costume Designer Irene Sharaff, has calamity been more glowingly or sumptuously caparisoned; such things as the stage set of Lisbon and the Guardi-like Venetian figures are superb. And seldom has so complicated a show received such expert and animated staging as Tyrone Guthrie has provided...
...18th Century Venetians: Canaletto's near-photographic panoramas of Venice could be bought for a few hundred dollars 15 years ago, now cost up to $30,000. A small pair of cityscapes by Francesco Guardi sold for $7,700 in 1946, brought $25,200 at auction in London last March. One reason for the comeback: the present fashion for imitation 18th century interiors. (Because early Renaissance furniture does not appeal to decorators this year, prices for Italian primitives are down...