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Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 and other works (Ivo Pogorelich, piano; Deutsche Grammophon). The fastest way to a big career these days seems to lie in not winning a major competition. When Pianist Youri Egorov failed to make the finals of the Van Cliburn four years ago, outraged fans launched him by raising an equivalent of the first-prize money themselves. Similarly, when Yugoslav-born Ivo Pogorelich, 22, was eliminated before the last round of the recent Chopin competition in Warsaw, one judge, Pianist Martha Argerich, resigned in protest. The incident became a musical cause...
...With your article on the discovery of a painting by Rogier van der Weyden [April 5] you have a reproduction of a portrait with the title "St. Ivo of Chartres." There seems to be some confusion here. France's Ivo (Yves de Chartres) wrote collections of canon law, but it was St. Yves of Brittany who was the patron saint of lawyers and is renowned for his defense of the poor and for free legal aid to the peasants. He was Yves (sometimes Ives or, in Latin, Ivo) Helory, who was born in 1253 on his father...
...identity of the man in the portrait is still a mystery, but Reader Richardson is correct that St. Ivo Helory of Kermartin was known for his defense of the poor. The National Gallery titles the painting "St. Ivo...
...portrait painted around 1440 of Van der Weyden's patron, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Other experts, such as John Pope-Hennessy, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, agreed. If it began as a portrait and was later converted into a religious image of St. Ivo, the National Gallery's painting is of unparalleled historical interest: it would be the first portrait in the history of Western art with a landscape in the background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday...
...National Gallery cautiously prefers to stick with St. Ivo. "The natural pose would be extraordinary if the picture were of Philip, merely somewhat unusual but nevertheless remarkable if it were of a saint," says Director Martin Davies. Yet the scholarly debate will certainly go on. The impassioned detail from the heavy eyes and fine-drawn skin to the sensitive mouth, argue a living model whose exact image Rogier van der Weyden was determined to record. Duke or saint, the painting is one of the most precious art discoveries of the past ten years...