Word: ribera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master to enter a U.S. collection), Salvator Rosa's wild-haired portrait of his mistress, La Ricciardi (purchased for a mere $4,500), Francisco Zurbarán's dramatic St. Serapion, and the museum's latest acquisition, the powerful, full-bearded Philosopher by Spaniard Jusepe de Ribera, bought...
Recalling Fogg Museum Mentor Paul Sachs's advice always to put quality first ("Buy the Czernin Vermeer"), Director Cunningham said with justifiable pride: "As far as I'm concerned, they're all Czernin Vermeers*-the Ribera would hang very comfortably in the Prado, and so would the Zurbar...
...together enough to establish that La Tour had been a famous painter in his day. Not until 1915 were the first two of his works identified by Kaiser Friedrich Museum Director Hermann Voss. Since then, scholars have winnowed through works variously attributed to such Spanish masters as Zurbaran, Velasquez, Ribera and Murillo, have now identified more than 25 of them as La Tours. His matching portraits, Peasant Man and Peasant Woman were presented by Art Patron Roscoe Oakes to San Francisco's De Young Museum, where they will be unveiled this week. Major works in La Tour...
...Three Omaha orthopedists corrected a faulty diagnosis made more than 300 years ago. To illustrate a TV talk about bone disorders, they used a reproduction of José Ribera's masterpiece (original in the Louvre) titled Boy with a Clubfoot. The closer they looked, the more clearly they saw that the bright-faced teen-ager also had a deformed right hand. The canvas, they concluded, should be retitled: Boy with Cerebral Palsy...