Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland Museum is celebrating its 35th anniversary, the hard way, with a well-calculated buying spree. Since the first of the year, Cleveland has bought four Venetian masterpieces: Lotto's Portrait of a Nobleman, Veronese's The Annunciation, Tintoretto's magnificent Baptism of Christ, and a hitherto unknown Titian entitled Portrait of a Prelate. Put on exhibition last week, the four Venetians gave new luster to a museum that was already one of the nation's best...
Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical...
Viktor Hatschier's appointment as manager of the Harvard Faculty Club last October is the most recent episode of a story-book career that compares with Benvenuto Cellini's "Autobiography" for variety and excitement. Like the versatile hero of the Renaissance, Hatschier is an artist, nobleman, soldier, adventurer, and writer. His art is the preparation of fine foods, but his career as an internationally known restaurateur has been spiced with dabblings in many other fields...
...decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena...
...youth Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (1644-1709) was sent to Warsaw to pick up a courtly education as a page to King John Casimir V of Poland. Mazepa, the story goes, picked up the wife of a Polish nobleman. The lady's husband surprised the lovers and ended the courtly phase of Mazepa's education by tying him naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most...