Word: prado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drowning man clutches a straw. There could be no greater gulf than that which separates Stuart's Flautist from the Black King painted by Hieronymus Bosch. The King is Caspar, the Moorish monarch and one of the Three Magi. He dominates Bosch's Epiphany at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The other Magi kneel to adore Jesus. Caspar, by contrast, stands splendidly erect. He is waiting to offer a silver coffer of myrrh: burial ointment nestled in a symbolic world egg. Within himself, one feels, Caspar holds greater treasures than the one between his calm hands...
...museum officials from coast to coast up in outraged arms. The clause eliminates the tax-free status of art donated to museums-and thereby strikes at the heart of the way in which U.S. museums have been built. In Europe, the great museums, from the Louvre and the Prado to the Uffizi, house collections that were initially accumulated by kings and princes. Most are still supported by state funds. In the U.S., by contrast, museums began and have largely continued as communal institutions that relied on the generosity of private donors to make great art available to the public...
Fielding practically ignores sightseeing: he dismisses the Louvre in five lines, the Prado in six, and his main reaction to Roman ruins is that "there's a permanency about...
...often helped each other on big commissions. Van Dyck and Jordaens worked side by side on the Rubens ceiling pieces for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The Jordaens show itself is also a major achievement in assemblage. Paintings were loaned by Queen Elizabeth, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy, the Prado, and Rumania's Brukenthal Museum. Even Leningrad's Hermitage contributed...
...group of post-impressionists from two fly-by-night dealers only to find that they were largely fakes (TIME, May 19, 1967), Meadows has since purchased some $3,500,000 worth of paintings, most of them from Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries in order to guarantee his prairie Prado some indisputable old masters...