Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some three years ago Harvard University received as a memorial gift a portrait bust of Descartes. But on comparison with the portrait in the Louvre, painted by Frans Hals, this attribution proved uncertain. It now is exhibited in the Fogg Museum for its intrinsic merit as sculpture...
...date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse, of his home. Monticello, on the reverse. Struck by the coincidence that Democrat Jefferson will be commemorated...
...London announced simultaneously that the Kaiser's portrait still hangs in its accustomed...
...another wall are seven German drawings. They belong to the sixteenth century but most of them are in ink and are religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...
...silverpoint. But all represent the beginnings of monumental works, religious paintings by such masters as Raphael and Perugino, Mantegna and Filippano Lippi. Of the sixteenth century there are included only two. They are a crayon and much larger in scale; a study by Veronese and a finished portrait by Luini of a young woman...