Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amusing. The appreciation of Mr. Jones and "Till Eulenspiegel" seems competent and sincere. What is more, it is readable. It describes the rich settings and costumes of the recent opera with a color and a freshness of epithet that hold the lay reader. The description of Zuloaga's "Portrait of a Dancing Girl" is rather less successful. Though a faithful picture, it lacks the vigor and life which Mr. Larkin has breathed into his portrayal of "Till Eulenspiegel." "Mr. Sunday on College Men," we have, written in newspaper style, an interview with the famous evangelist. As an interview...
Baedeker, in his guide-book, calls Mrs. Gardner's "the choicest collection of art in America". It includes Raphael's Portrait of Fedra Inghirami, the "Rape of Europe," by Titian, called by Rubens "the first picture in the world," and best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America...
...transition to the art of the third period, there are two striking portraits of Senor and Senora del Rio, by Antonio Moro; and finally, the art of the 17th century shown by the great master of the period, Peter Paul Rubens, by whom there are two paintings in the exhibition. To illustrate Van Dyck, the Museum has on exhibition its well-known "Portrait of Nicolas Triest...
...There was a tendency in the banners to lampoon all three of the candidates for the Presidency--Blaine, Cleveland and Butler; and this tendency was greatly emphasized when the class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side of which was a caricature-portrait of Blaine, on the next one, of Cleveland, and on the third, one of Butler; and these were respectively labelled, in the above order, "the World, the Flesh and the Devil!" Round and round the transparency turned...
...very important Portrait of a Lady by Hugo van der Goes. 1435-1482, has been lent for several weeks to the Museum by Mr. Phillip Lehman...