Word: portinari
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...some modifications, from Provence. With the Provencal style came the Provencal subject: the cult of courtly love and the service of the lady fair. In Dante's life the lady fair was Beatrice. A 14th century biographer reports, not altogether reliably, that she was a daughter of Folco Portinari, a Florentine nobleman, and that she looked like "a little angel." Dante, the account continues, met Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight, and he swore to love her forever. On the evidence of his poetry, he adored her from a distance. But the affair was nevertheless passionate...
...Goes, Portinari Tryptych, $20 million...
Died. Candido Portinari, 58, painter laureate of Brazil who sought to capture his country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former...
...paint this week's cover portrait of Brazil's President Jânio Quadros, TIME chose Brazil's most renowned artist. Cândido Portinari, 57, has spent his life, as he puts it, painting "the Brazilian people being born, living and dying, in their rituals and feasts, at their work and play." Portinari's work has been in the pages of TIME'S ART section on several occasions, and he has also painted Brazilian Presidents Getulio Vargas and Juscelino Kubitschek, but this is his first TIME cover. Delighted at the assignment to paint...
Brazil takes for granted the eminence of such of its artists as Painter Candido Portinari and Architect Oscar Niemeyer, but reserves its affection and worried concern for someone else. At 64, Alberto da Veiga Guignard is Brazil's most cherished artist. Poets write about him, collectors pay more for his canvases than for those of any other Brazilian, and Painter Portinari himself has called him "my master." Guignard must be watched every minute of the day: he is the kind of man who has happily traded a $2,500 painting for one bottle of cheap cane alcohol...