Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe he was Egidius Steclin, a 15th century goldsmith who worked in the Duke of Burgundy's court. Others insist that he was Erwin von Stege, onetime mintmaster to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. Or, as one archivist suggests, was he really Endres Silbernagel, an obscure Freiburg painter who died of the plague...
...lived an Emperor named Yuan Ti with a harem as big as all the Playboy clubs. He tried manfully to give all his wives the personal touch, but there were so many he never got around to meeting them all. To remedy the situation, his highness had a court painter limn pictures of the girls, then present the likenesses to him. Those that passed the silk-screen test got to play the palace...
...painter, though a good artist, was a bad man who demanded bribes from the girls and painted only those who had a yen for him. When the most beautiful candidate of them all (Lin Dai) refused to pay him, he painted an ugly picture of her, and it was three years before the Emperor accidentally ran across...
...perfidious painter escapes to the Huns on the other side of the Great Wall. There he shows the Khan a lifelike picture of the girl, persuades him to assemble his army and demand her hand. To save her country, the girl nobly leaves her Emperor, journeys to the Huns and presents herself to the Khan...
...three were foreigners, and all said they were journalists. One was a British photographer, George Andrew Roth, who had often worked on stories with the Bolivian army; he was released. The second was a mediocre Argentine painter named Giro Roberto Bustos, who belonged to the Communist Party but considered it "bourgeois...