Word: riberas
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...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...
Most literary picture was The Letter, a water color by Lucien Ribera showing a minutely realistic man's hand, whiskey glass, deck of cards, engagement ring, and a letter ending: "and so I am returning the ring. Try to understand...
Other works are by Robert Nanteuil, one of the foremost French artists of the seventeenth century, Stephano Della Bella, an Italian etcher, Vaillant, a less familiar French artist, and Jose Ribera, a Spaniard...
...culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings of art. These distortions must of course, be studied, and may be laughed at, but not at the expense of the deeper meaning. That there is any deeper meaning seems to have escaped certain local "theologians." Lynn F. White...