Word: precisionism
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Isabella of Castile is best known to history as the lady who, with King Ferdinand, backed Columbus on his voyage that led to the discovery of the New World. But in her time, the Spanish Queen was equally renowned as a patroness of the arts. At her bidding, Juan de...
Washington's National Gallery of Art now offers a double opportunity to see what Dürer was talking about. To a Sithium panel, acquired in 1964, depicting The Assumption of the Virgin, the gallery has now added a companion piece from Isabella's chapel, a Juan de...
> BBC Symphony's Colin Davis, 40, ranks as Britain's best conductor since Sir Thomas Beecham. He has a relatively wide repertory, ranging from Mozart through Berlioz to Stravinsky, and an uncanny talent for instilling the faded and familiar with fresh life. His straightforward technique combines grace with...
Only one Harvard player, Michel Scheinmann, dropped a game. After winning his first two games, 15-7 and 15-12, Scheinmann, playing number six, faltered and lost the third game, 15-10. But he recovered quickly and with cool precision set down his opponent, 15-9, in the fourth game...
With Nagasaki flattened by an A-bomb (code-named "Fat Man"), Emperor Hirohito gathered his ministers in an underground shelter and asked them to sue for peace. Such intervention by the Emperor was extraordinary, and, since Hirohito was believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from...