Word: painter
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CALIFORNIA A Nice Point of Law The police of Long Beach, Calif, had no doubt that Arta Christiansen died by her own hand. After threatening suicide at least half a dozen times during her one year of married life with House Painter Oswald Christiansen, she spent the evening at a bar, then went home and took a .22 rifle out of a closet. She asked Oswald to load the gun for her, and he promptly did so. She told him what she was going to do. "You haven't got the guts," he said. Then & there, she proved...
...Wall Street, Warner had arrived long before. The son of a Boston house painter, he worked his way through New York University, graduated with honors, and in 1932 set up a brokerage house of his own in Manhattan, later branching out into New England. Specializing in "over-the-counter" securities, J. Arthur Warner & Co. flourished, became one of the nation's biggest dealers in unlisted securities, with assets of $8.8 million...
Italy's foremost Casanova expert, retired Journalist Gino Damerini, was immediately called in. He said the costume was typical of the dandified Casanova; other experts testified that it was surely Casanova, with the same heavy eyelids, arrogant nose and sensual lips. The painter, according to the experts: Raphael Mengs, an 18th century Bohemian master...
Later, after the Venetian ambassador wangled his release, Casanova went back to Mengs and more adventures. But the long-suffering Mengs soon had enough and asked the great libertine to leave. Says Casanova bitterly in his Memoirs: "To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honor him by staying at his house ... As a matter of fact, he had only asked me to stay with him to gratify his own vanity...
Help from Velasquez. Success only drew Zurbaran inward. He never played in Seville's glittering art world, but withdrew with his wife to the country, painting furiously between moods of deep depression. Among his few friends was Spain's great court painter Velasquez. In later years, when commissions came more slowly, Zurbaran traveled to Madrid for help from Velasquez. The records show that Velasquez did his best, but Zurbaran painted less and less, became commonplace in some of his work. By the time he died in 1664 at the age of 65, Zurbaran was out of favor...