Word: magie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned the Magi into a composite playing card. The result was not as handsome as real playing cards, but it had style and force...
...eight, Albert foreshadowed the direction of his future biblical criticism when he asked, on reading the story of the Three Wise Men, how the parents of Jesus could have been poor after receiving the gold and costly gifts the Magi brought. "And that the Wise Men should never have troubled themselves again about the Child Jesus was to me incomprehensible. The absence, too, of any record of the shepherds of Bethlehem becoming disciples gave me a severe shock...
...Eliot records, made when the poet visited Cambridge last spring, include "Journey of Magi," "A Song for Simeon," and "Fragment of an Agon...
...hoping, Italy was at last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
Creshkoff's rendition of two selections from the works of T. S. Eliot was delivered with feeling. "The Hollow Man," his first choice, was adapted to his voice, and in both this and "Journey of the Magi" he showed fine handling of a piece requiring careful interpretation...