Word: ostia
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Alcalay’s own vision gave the water in his 1949 work “By the Shores of Ostia,” its particular murkiness and the houses their faded oranges and purples, evocative of sunset. He infused his later 1984 work “Study for Festivities” with a sense of pure human joy, though the painting does not contain a single human figure. When Alcalay finally came to grips with himself as a landscape painter, he saw himself in his early years as “describing the landscape...