Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dispatching his personal barber, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, put down a kinky situation. Crisis : the hair on the new wax Mountbatten at London's famed Madame Tussaud's museum was far too curly. The barber slicked down all but a single, suavely undulant wave...
...painting that is not only a masterful work of art but also a fascinating footnote to an old mystery goes on display this week in Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It is Peter Paul Rubens' 10|½-in.-by-15-in. oil sketch for his Pallas and Arachne. The finished painting is long lost, and presumably destroyed-but still to be seen in a copy made three centuries ago by the Spanish painter Velàsquez...
...destination of D.G.'s collection, long the most tempting prize for art dealers the world over, was settled. For a mere $4,737,000, Rotterdam's municipal government bought the whole collection from the Van Beuningen heirs, will house it in the city's Boymans Museum, where old D.G., who called it. "my museum," kept his largest canvases. In return for the bargain price, the Van Beuningen heirs set a few conditions: the collection must not be resold, it must be on permanent view, it must be clearly labeled as coming from...
...Beuningen's most sensational buy, a Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...
...glass goblets, vases and bowls on display, made for Renaissance princes and Islamic sultans, are now owned by private U.S. collectors and museums, who lent them to the Corning Museum. None dates before 1450, and by that time the industry was well established, centered in Venice's island of Murano, where glass blowers work to this day. The glassmakers imported alkali from Spain and the Near East, pebbles of quartz from the River Ticino near Milan, and manganese, the "glassmakers' soap," which turned their glass to near crystal transparency. They were accurately imitating jewels in glass and turning...