Word: isabella
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...indigenous one in short order, although the successive caliphs tended to retain a nostalgia for Baghdad. Out of the Moorish conquest grew the first unified culture Spain had seen since the collapse of the Roman Empire. It lasted until 1492, when Catholic armies, under Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, drove the last vestiges of Arab power back to North Africa. If you want to grasp why Spain, traditionally, is unique in Europe, you must begin with the fact that no other European country was so permeated -- in language, customs and cultural forms -- by Islam...
...esteemed as a painter was to be compared with lost and mythic artists: Parrhasios, Zeuxis and Apelles. Mantegna's taste for emblems and learned allegory -- the mark of superior imagination among Italian humanists -- pervades the work he did at Isabella d'Este's prompting, such as the fantastically elaborate scene of Pallas Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue...
...Melissa Lee '95 Joe Mathews '95 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Philip P. Pan '93 Joshua W. Shenk '93 Mark N. Templeton '93 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Editorial Page Editor: Steven V, Mazie '93 City Editor: Julian E. Barnes '93 Sports Editor: John Trainer '95 Photo Editors: Susuannah Ross '93 Isabella M. Dedring '93 Design Editors: Esther Chang '95 Dante E.A. Ramos...
...March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as policemen entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, trussed up two guards and made off with a king's ransom: three Rembrandts, five paintings by Degas, one Manet and one of only 36 known Vermeers in existence. The Vermeer canvas was hacked from its stretcher, leaving chips of paint on the floor. At an estimated total value of $200 million, it may have been the most lucrative art theft in history...
...Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio--performs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 280 The Fenway in Boston. The concert is in the Tapestry Room and is free with museum admission. Call 734-1359. Sunday...