Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright red banners wavered in the soft spring air. A tremendous color portrait of Stalin in his marshal's sand-hued greatcoat smiled benignly from the ornate facade of the Historical Museum. Old women scrubbed shop windows, old men hosed the streets, anxious housewives queued up for special holiday goodies and 10,000 Red Army men gathered one evening before the Bolshoi Theater to practice mass singing. Moscow was ready for May Day; people said that there might be an oldtime monster parade across Red Square, the first since...
...Chinese term for portrait painting means, literally, "to draw truth." Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed some small examples of this interpretation: a show of 46 "War Pictures by Chinese Children...
...Petrus Christus' Dionysius the Carthusian. This small, serene, meticulous portrait of a monk (on wood panel) is often considered the gem of the Bache collection...
...from Britain's No. 1 merchant of art, Lord Duveen of Millbank, made the Bache collection eminently worth seeing. Every great European art period from the Renaissance through the 18th Century is represented. Included are: three Bellinis, a Botticelli, a Fra Filippo Lippi, three Titians, Diirer's Portrait of a Lady, a half-dozen Holbeins and Halses, three Rembrandts, two Vermeers, a scattering of 18th-Century Frenchmen and Britons. Outstanding...
...Raphael's famed portrait of the powerful, crafty Florentine ruler, Giuliano de' Medici. This somber classic Italian Renaissance masterpiece disappeared for three centuries, was rediscovered in Florence in 1867, was sold to the Russian Imperial family, cost Collector Bache...