Word: huntsman
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...artists try to paint what they see, but some look inside themselves for subjects, some look out. Winslow Homer, who died in 1910, was one who looked out. His huntsman's eyes, above the hairy battlement of his mustache, saw the world his contemporaries saw, but saw it more sharply. "When I have selected the thing carefully," he explained, "I paint it exactly as it appears...
...green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves...
...Iseult are nearer to human than heroic size. Iseult the Fair has a whole bag of tricks up her flowing sleeves. Tristan is probably the most versatile hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully admitted that he is also a most accomplished liar...
...Boston Library did not hang some of its more raffish Rowlandson items. But the show contained such characteristic works as At Close Range, a deft landscape containing a stray huntsman spying on a lover's embrace, and the farcical Pig in a Poke, in which a juicy porker tries to escape pursuing humanity through the heavy legs of an equally porcine woman...
Just before the curtain rose on last week's performance of Tannhäuser at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, a wheel chair was carefully pushed up to the wings. From it, with great gentleness, a husky stagehand and a medieval huntsman lifted the frail body of a bravely smiling diva, deposited her tenderly on the cushions of a shell-backed fairy-tale divan. Amid a crowd of pirouetting nymphs and satyrs the reclining diva, her blond hair sparkling with stage diamonds, was slowly wheeled on the stage...