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...Giovanni, each Madonna and Child, Crucifixion, Pieta, martyred saint, and lay portrait was an essay on nature as well as on man. He organized his pictures with the care of a conscientious gardener, planting every detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems...
...first postwar fashion show. Gathered on the broad, springy lawn of Madame's plushy home were leading lights of Shanghai's international set. The wife of a U.S. oil company manager came confidently attired in a new spring suit; an icy Russian brunette sat like a Raphael Madonna in a startling blue turban...
Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...
Favorite & Rival. Lucas Cranach, an early 16th-Century German master, was a Göring favorite, and he had some beauties-about 50 in all. He had a lovely Venus by Cranach, a Madonna with Child and John the Baptist, and a haunting portrait of Prince Moritz of Saxony as a boy. "It is a curious thing," Hofer added, "but that portrait has great similarity to little Edda, Göring's daughter...
...richest art collections in the world. Art-lover Hermann Göring, hastily moving south, was rumored to have boarded the sealed, armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...