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...sculpture and partly from Gothic stained glass. He has not enlarged the bounds of art but only formed an eclectic, intensely personal method of expressing himself. Rouault's paintings are as rich in color as Byzantine mosaics, but less clearly conceived, and as deep in human feeling as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible, but less fully developed. Yet the fact that such comparisons are possible at all indicates the old man's genius...
Pinups in Palaces. Among the most notable items in the show: a heroic Judith and Holofernes by Rubens, a precise and touching portrait of a half-nude woman by Rembrandt, a vicious Hogarth called The Reward of Cruelty, which shows the dissection of a murderer's corpse in gruesome detail. The exhibit also shows that, once they had learned their anatomy, many artists proceeded to paint the human form not as it was but as they thought it ought to be. The Fontainebleau school (started in the 16th century) created elegant cheesecake pinups of an elongated grace, their charms...
...important art buy in another U.S. city. For 15 years, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been hunting for a first-class Goya. Last week the master's Self Portrait with Doctor Arrieta was hanging in the museum's place of honor (Minneapolis' prized Rembrandt, Lucretia, had been moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years old, totally deaf and seriously ill. Sickness always made the touchy...
...music last week, Claudio Monteverdi goes a long way back. While he was composing his Vespers and Magnificat, Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral was still abuilding, Shakespeare was writing his Winter's Tale, Galileo was pondering the mysteries of the stars in their courses, Rembrandt and John Milton were toddling infants, and New York City-the year was 1610 -had not yet been thought...
...history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic Remington...