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...portraying the lives of Christ and Mary for her private chapel. All but two were probably by Juan de Flandes, a Fleming whose sophisticated fusion of courtliness and naiveté, and languid, doll-like figures were much prized in the Northern European Renaissance. Painter Albrecht Dürer, when he saw the panels in 1521, exclaimed: "I have never seen the like for precision and excellence...
...noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come, Dürer and Grünewald...
...banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old French proverb: "Point n'est besoin d'esperer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer [One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere]." Next day, by a 9-1 vote, with France's Michel Debré the only holdout, Ministers of the Group of Ten agreed to persevere some more...
...such formative thinkers as Einstein and Niels Bohr. Discoveries recorded there include Oppenheimer's work in particle physics, George Placzek's separation of slow neutrons from solids. Among its historians, probably the most influential is Art Historian Erwin Panofksy, author of the definitive biography of Dürer...
Divinity in a Drawing. In Dürer's day, art works were valued like dry-goods-by the size, hours of labor and the material. As a new humanist, he protested that as art represented man more accurately, it approached divinity more closely. So a tiny drawing, if divinely inspired, could be more artistic than a giant altarpiece. "Verily, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it," Dürer declared. And to make certain that his insight would be recognized, he became one of the first to sign and date even his most...