Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his heyday La Tour could count on the patronage of nobles, won an appointment as court painter to King Louis
XIII. What cast his work into the shadow was the rule of King Louis XIV, who favored the glorifying allegories and myths of the classic style, abhorred naturalism and humanism. Shown a work by one of La Tour's fellow realists, Louis le Nain, the Sun King snorted: "Take...
In the 19th century, scholars pieced together enough to establish that La Tour had been a famous painter in his day. Not until 1915 were the first two of his works identified by Kaiser Friedrich Museum Director Hermann Voss. Since then, scholars have winnowed through works variously attributed to such...
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemist Price describes the ''immunological overlap'' among the B viruses, most of which are borne by mosquitoes or ticks. Most feared are Japanese B encephalitis, Russian spring-summer fever, St. Louis encephalitis and Murray Valley fever. *Closely...
Sugar Candy. Oilman Getty, 64, is one of the least known among the world's oil giants, usually breaks into the press only with news of his marriages and divorces (five of each). An expatriate, he lives in hotel rooms from Europe to the Levant, has little social life...