Word: jaffe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wild parties, battles, adventures and seductions. The stories gave Titian a chance to luxuriate in glowing nakedness, gleaming jewelry, strokable fur, lush lawns and tangled forests. He could also pour sincere emotion into the Christian story, producing tender madonnas or dark scenes of Jesus' torture and death. To David Jaffé, senior curator at the National Gallery, Titian's empathy was his distinctive gift. When he depicts a beautiful woman, he says, "you can feel his real admiration. If he is painting a tragic subject, like a martyrdom, he is sharing the grief." He points to Titian's last picture...
Princely Portrait. Some of the triumphs, in fact, are being credited to Jordaens for the first time. Britain's Michael Jaffé, a Rubens scholar who assembled the show, perused the world's great treasure houses, ended by reat-tnbuting no fewer than 30 paintings and some 70 drawings to Jordaens. Among them is a princely portrait that had hung for 108 years in Scotland's Rossie Priory labeled "General Velasquez by Rubens." Another, portraying the infant Bacchus, Jaffé pulled from a musty storeroom in Warsaw's National Museum...
...Bonn promised NATO the manpower for 1,326 planes in 20 wings by 1960. But last week, two years after the go-ahead on rearmament, 18 months after pilot training began, the new Luftwaffe was still on the ground. The "few" were now Germans. The German Air Force (or "jaff," as the Americans pronounce it) boasts only 50 trained jet pilots, half of them base-bound as instructors, the rest aloft in a lone F-84 fighter squadron. A spare-parts shortage has grounded 23 of G.A.F.'s 140 planes. The U.S., which had taken Thunderjets out of mothballs...
| 1 |