Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bust, executed about 1646, was formerly in the Lord North collection and the Paget collection. Bernini was known especially for the characterization and realistic power of his portrait statues...
...time to catch a train for Boston where he took Best of Breed in spite of frost-bitten feet. The last time she told the story was at a gathering in the Manhattan studio of an etcher where Nunsoe Due de la Terrace had not only had his portrait etched but where he himself unveiled the work by yanking a rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black...
...works, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a lavish period piece, packed with all the paraphernalia of an epoch that the cinema has neglected since D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency...
...portrait of Anne of Austria by Rubens, and a triptych, St. Lawrence Enthroned by Filippo Lippi, to the Metropolitan Museum...
Domenico Ghirlandajo's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, to still another anonymous collector for $500,000. One of twelve Ghirlandajos in the U. S.. this brilliant picture of the daughter of the great Florentine banking family was considered one of the most important in the entire Morgan collection. It was bought by the elder Morgan in 1907 for one-half of last week's price...