Word: illuminatione
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The duke always tended to encourage the more progressive trends in painting. This, in practice, meant Italian influence. One of the Morgan Library's treasures, a small book of silverpoint sketches on boxwood, probably done by the duke's favorite miniaturist, Jacquemart de Hesdin, is permeated by the...
Stanley Kunitz, one of the finest lyric poets of our time, introduced himself quietly as if to establish not only his own identity but his separateness. First he read one of his own poems. "The Illumination," and immediately I was aware of the music of poetry, a music not heard...
Divine Gesture. The Morgan's prayer-book is a luminous messenger from the culture of the late medieval Italian courts -a world now as dead as the turned face of the moon and less visible. Manuscript illumination was the most private of all arts, tiny in scale, introverted and...
With unnecessary modesty, Prince describes his role in the shaping of Follies as "a moderator, a mediator, someone to take the blame." Not quite so. If writers had the final play on words, it was Prince who enjoyed the ultimate word on plays. He discovered what came to be the...
Venus's-Flytrap. Fittingly enough, Philip (Alec McCowen), the hero of The Philanthropist, is a philologist. In Act I, Philip is insouciantly embroiled in a drawing-room-cum-bedroom farce; in Act II, he is mournfully bogged down in a talky self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for...