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...Mexico City airline pilot, Cuevas discovered his genre at ten, when he found a dead rabbit, gutted it and sketched its entrails. He tried oils at 13 but soon abandoned them for ink and watercolors, roamed the streets in dungarees, sketching the poor and infirm. An elder brother, studying to be a psychiatrist, got him permission to visit insane asylums for his studies...
...Painter John Trumbull to house his own canvases. Since then the gallery has grown steadily bigger and richer, and last year it added a strikingly modern, $1,500,000 wing. But for generations the student favorite at the gallery has been a thoughtful, kind-looking lady who clutches a rabbit to her velvet bosom. The painting is attributed to Piero di Cosimo, and beautifully combines Piero's relaxed good cheer with the dressy formalism of his native Florence...
...rabbit in the picture accords with Piero's deep feeling for nature. Like Rousseau, he dreamed of a golden age when noble savages lived in harmony with the wilderness. The sophisticated Florentines of Piero's day found him increasingly strange. Giorgio Vasari coolly records that after Piero's death in 1521, "it appeared that he had lived the life of a brute rather than a man, as he had kept himself shut up and would not permit anyone to see him work. He would not allow his rooms to be swept, he ate when he felt hungry...
...juices. After 14½ steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Stephen McNally in Rabbit Foot...