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Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
...sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo). Burned out in his early 50s, Paganini died in Nice at 58, a century ago last week. Few men have been so widely buried. For his sins, the Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved to his son's estate near his native Genoa. Later he was taken to Parma, where he occupied successively three different graves. Finally...
Said Director John Ford when he saw these real live painters: "This is the damnedest miscasting I ever saw." The cast: blond, amiable, plodding Grant Wood; dark, volatile Thomas Benton; shy, diminutive, big-eared Raphael Soyer, with the faraway, downhearted look of his old men and nudes; tweedy, sophisticated George Biddle; big, pink-faced Ernest Fiene; aristocratic James Chapin; athletic bachelor Georges Schreiber; big, gruff Portraitist Robert Philipp; dynamic Luis Quintanilla, famed Spanish-refugee fresco painter...
...give a false impression: certain standards of excellence are attributed to the artists whose works have been copied and these standards are pre-supposed for the purpose of distinguishing more clearly between what is genuine and what is not. This may lead one to believe that Raphael for example, never produced a poorly executed painting, or that Constable never failed to gain his desired effect, or again, that Corot was always successful in the creation of his shimmering landscapes. It should be understood that even the greatest artists must, at some time, have produced paintings which were badly done...
Genuine paintings from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries are shown side by side with their respective counterfeits. Examples include pieces by Bellini, Raphael, Constable, Corot, Guardi, Ingres, and Durer. Egyptian, Greek, and Italian Renaissance sculpture, together with Chinese and Aztec figures in stone, complete the main body of the exhibit. Forgetting the line of demarcation which can be drawn between the false art and the true, it can be said that many of the examples shown are products of great craftsmanship and skill. The counterfeit Raphael as well as the Constable indicates that the forger can often be placed...