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There is no more celebrated living art ist in Italy than Giacomo Manzù. At 60, he is renowned throughout Europe for his stately cardinals, his great bronze doors of St. Peter's in Rome, and his role as friend, confidant and portraitist of Pope John XXIII. It was altogether fitting, then, that this summer Manzù should become the only living Italian art ist to have a museum dedicated to his work alone...
...nature has never been lifted," he noted, "affect the mind with more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them, the consequent associations are of God, the Creator; they are his undefiled works." Cole decided to become a landscape painter instead of a portraitist...
Died. Ben Shahn, 70, U.S. portraitist, poster maker, muralist and artistic polemicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Is there nothing to weep, about in this world any more?" the shaggy-bearded artist once asked. For him, the answer was always yes. Son of a Russian-born immigrant, Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, and his proletarian vision was forged in the class-consciousness of the Depression. He employed elements of both Cubism and Surrealism in his own spare variant of social realism. In 1932 he won fame portraying the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Thereafter...
...world of Antwerp but all the courts of Europe. Certainly many of Jordaens' paintings echo his master, just as do some of Van Dyck's, Rubens' other (and younger) disciple. Van Dyck went to the British court to make a successful career as perhaps the sleekest portraitist of all time. Jordaens stayed in Antwerp...
...long afterwards, a counselor to Louis XV wrote admiringly that "La Tour is becoming the portraitist a la mode." Louis summoned La Tour to Versailles, where he limned the monarch's handsome features, as well as those of the royal family and Madame de Pompadour. Other commissions naturally followed. Along with other prominent painters of the day, he was soon awarded quarters in the Louvre, which then served as a royally endowed artists' colony. In 1750 Louis named him official court painter...