Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week that one was in the U.S. Washington's National Gallery of Art announced that it had acquired Leonardo's 15⅛-in. by 14½-in. oil portrait of Ginevra dei Benci, a 15th century nobleman's wife. The seller was Prince Franz Josef II, head of tiny (61 sq. mi.) Liechtenstein, tucked snugly between Austria and Switzerland. Price: an estimated $5,000,000, more than twice the previous record of $2,300,000, paid in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. And while...
...last week went on exhibition in New York's Asia House Gallery. Typical of his sharp-eyed acquisitiveness are his ceramic brace of Northern Wei young women. Dating from around A.D. 500, they stand only 6¾-in. high and represent dancers ready to perform in a nobleman's house. The piece was never meant to be seen by living eyes; like funeral objects found in Egyptian tombs, the sculpture was placed in the elegant grave of a dead princeling as a token of worldly pleasures to accompany him in the afterlife...
...Parisians call it-was sold to the Communist government in 1925, has since become a major Paris bank and has assets of $624 million. Like the new Wozchod bank in Switzerland, the B.C.E.N. operates with a mainly local board; the president is Guy de Boysson, 45, a French nobleman who once held Communist Party membership...
...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...
...financial straits, and the fact that when he died in 1675, at 43, he left his widow and eleven children a bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such exists, although scholars believe that the figure at the easel in Allegory of Painting very likely represents the Delft...