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...that life stage. Craig moved away before 9/11 to become a professor and raise a family. Though he harbors a secret mid-life crisis, Craig seems the most grounded of the crew. He becomes the story's locus as he reacquaints himself with his friends. Mac, a successful painter and permanent bachelor, left the city after the disaster. Deeply shaken by the experience, but loathe to admit it, he puts up a vain and pompous front - "Don't touch my hair" he screams - that only his chums can get through. Craig and Mac wonder if Neil, a notorious womanizer whose...
...that manages to work in a few Italian frescoes or a Dutch still life. Stirred by the success of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, about a household servant who inspires Vermeer, publishers have rushed in with titles like Christopher Peachment's Caravaggio; Will Davenport's The Painter, about Rembrandt; and Mario Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise, about Gauguin. As a rule, the books are intelligent, sometimes even ingenious, but in most, the underlying formula is plain: art plus sex. So Chevalier's new best seller, The Lady and the Unicorn, features Nicolas des Innocents, painter...
...city. The fanatical monk Savonarola is raging from the pulpit against lust and luxury. His religious police, a kind of Christian Taliban, will soon be enforcing godliness with a cudgel, punishing sodomists and chasing women indoors. The turmoil outside interests Alessandra, but what really absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though not to Florence--in 1494. He doesn't, though Dunant probably wouldn't mind...
...painter, Alcalay was initially influenced by the Expressionist movement, then moved deeper into his love of landscape. He realized later that the three worlds among which he moved—Expressionism, landscapes and abstract painting—and which became in their disparateness a source of frustration, were not mutually exclusive. In the end, the landscape still needed to be expressed by his brush...
...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. Now, I’m evoking the landscape...