Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant only after he passed 90, in his later years he worked on seven or eight pictures at once, impatiently used his finger tips more than his brushes in spreading paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape of Europa, bought years ago by Boston's canny Mrs. Jack Gardner, and Judith with the Head of Holofernes at the Detroit Institute of Arts...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and considered "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum" was (1 The Artist's Mother-Whistler, 2 American Gothic-Wood, 3 Mono. Lisa-da Vinci, 4 The Card Players-Cezanne, S Venus and the Lute Player-Titian...
...lecture will be illustrated by songs with lute accompaniment, and records made by the English singers and the St. George's singers, and will be open to the public without charge...
...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
Venus and the Lute Player, finished when the world's longest-living (99) painter was about 83, is in Titian's "yellow & blue" period with overtones of the preceding "red & green." No diet-disciplined Hollywood beauty, the great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...