Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 Spanish masters as Zurbaran, Velasquez, Ribera and Murillo, have now identified more than 25 of them as La Tours. His matching portraits, Peasant Man and Peasant Woman were presented by Art Patron Roscoe Oakes to San Francisco's De Young Museum, where they will be unveiled this week. Major works...
Gladys Lloyd Robinson did not mind seeing the great collection go. Temperamentally, she was "tired of being a curator of an art museum," and she needed the money. But Cigar-Chomper Robinson, who had lovingly brought the paintings together one by one, sounded sad and nostalgic. "My favorites?" he said. "They are all my favorites...
...little social life, usually eats alone and frugally, wears out-at-the-elbow sweaters. A notorious penny pincher, he passes out tips sparingly, constantly grumbles about the high cost of everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, and perhaps the best U.S. collection of Louis XV and XVI furniture) and the zoo (four buffalo, two bears, an Abyssinian mountain goat), adjoining the Malibu home he has not visited in five years...
Author Kendrick, director of the British Museum, shows how the earthquake set a generation of robust optimists to muttering of doomsday. Most people in Europe believed that the earthquake was a divine visitation like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Portugal, the church was convinced that the people of Lisbon had been punished for not being good Roman Catholics; in Protestant England, the pulpits had it that Lisbon had been leveled because of the vices of Portuguese popery (although Preacher Thomas Alcock asked: "If popish superstition and cruelty made Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely...