Word: holbeins
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...Eton's standards a mere babe in the educational woods, Trinity College (Cambridge) last week had a birthday too. King George VI, a Trinity man himself, showed up for the 400th birthday party. Beneath a Holbein portrait of Henry VIII, who founded Trinity, George raised his glass in a toast: ". . . Like many of you undergraduates, I myself came here [in 1919] straight from the fighting services, and I found in the atmosphere of Cambridge ... a steady and mellowing influence." Others under the influence: Newton, Bacon, Coke, Byron, Dryden, Tennyson...
...grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings of Marxism (he is a member of Iceland's Communist, or so-called United People's Front-Socialist, party...
...through an A.M.G.-sponsored art show in Wiesbaden. In paintings gathered from bombed-out German museums (notably Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags...
...prove his point, Dr. Daley had an artist make tracings of Mono, Lisa, Titian's Man in a Red Cap and Holbein's Erasmus and alter the tracings to show how "dull and uninteresting" they look with noses altered to suit modern standards. As further evidence he has kept his own magnificently large, arched, craggy and overhanging...
...week recovered other art treasures the Nazis removed from bombed German cities, possibly from French museums. Chief item: the famed, gold-and-jeweled "Reliquary of the Magi" sarcophagus from the Cologne Cathedral. Other items: the bones of Charlemagne, a magnificent carved door from Cologne's Cathedral, paintings by Holbein, Van Gogh, Rubens...