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...house on the lake and then have people point at it." And neither he nor Annette saw any reason to tamper with a good thing. "After our early struggle to establish our values, we really felt we'd found our way. Annette's career as a painter had begun, our children had been born, we'd formed a family. Why change?" One small alteration. He wrote Presumed Innocent in the basement; now he has a second-floor study...
...garde yet obsessively preservationist. First century Roman baths are being excavated amid the twisting streets of its dense Gothic quarter. The famous Picasso Museum is housed in a 15th century palace; the main Olympic stadium is a renovated 1929 arena. This month Antoni Tapies, Catalonia's best-known living painter, will open, in a refurbished art deco mansion, a foundation featuring four decades of abstract works. "Catalonia," says Tapies, "can be summed up in an old motto, seny i rauxa -- prudence and daring...
...also represent the painter and muralist Michelangelo. As you know from Variety, he is just finishing the sketches for his big Sistine Chapel production. Mike has never before offered product placements in his works, so this is a rare opportunity for a shrewd advertiser. The ceiling will depict the moment of creation -- Adam and God with arms outstretched to each other and fingers touching. It's dynamite, I promise you. For $20,000, Adam could be wearing a Rolex watch; for $40,000, God could wear one; for $60,000, both. Although Mike is committed to the concept of Adam...
Tiffany trained as a painter; several of his mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats...
Stained-glass windows, at first merely a part of decor, soon became an obsession into which Tiffany poured his talent and technical brilliance. He explored luminescence and color in his windows with an intensity that would credit a modern painter. Instead of using lead cames, or frames, at regular intervals, as glassmakers had done for centuries, he incorporated the metal strips into the design, as outlines for trees and riverbanks. His vision was limited by the few kinds of glass commercially available, so he invented and patented his own brand, called Favrile glass. By 1900 he boasted that he could...