Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rubens did best when he stood alone before a vast canvas; his finest works are huge mythological scenes filled with cream-and-honey nudes, and Biblical illustrations done on an equally grand and almost equally sensuous scale. But he could also put his passion for people into a small portrait, as his head of curly-maned Francesco Gonzaga, who later became Duke of Mantua, proves. The young nobleman's good-natured mouth looks about to speak, and his eyes are bright with thought, as though Gonzaga were in the midst of a conversation that both he and the artist...
...Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day and hour of the Passion, Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
There is truth and good sense in Lee's attitude. Building schools is a passion with Texans,* and nearly every college in the state has construction either under way or blueprinted. As Umphrey puts it: "There is an atmosphere of achievement and a healthy attitude toward giving. People do not ask, 'Can it be done?' They know it can. All they want to know is whether it is desirable...
...Giorgione of the 20th Century . . . He remains the unknown soldier of the war for modern art, perhaps because of the smallness of his output." Soldier Duchamp fought his last battle with a piece of canvas some 30 years ago, gave up painting to pursue a greater passion: chess. He has since (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949) become a fair player...
...certain delicious Passion, which...