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...lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near Liverpool. When the Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems less a miniature than a heroic picture seen through a small window...
...tragedy which came from Hofmiller's pity for beautiful, crippled Edith von Kekesfalva, daughter of an Austrian pseudo nobleman. Invited for the first time to the Kekesfalvas' big country estate, naïve young Hofmiller, un aware that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs, hysterical abuse. So begin Hof miller's visits to comfort and cheer this girl, frail, intuitive, passionate, spoiled by every luxury. For Hofmiller, pity is pleasurable until it turns into a jinni which needs his commanding officer, the War and suicide...
...with Wu"). Before he was ten years old, he could recite thousands of lines of the Chinese classics. No other Chinese military leader is so familiar with the writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow his troops to loot the Chinese countryside over which they maneuvered...
...strongest of those is Judge Lehman of the New York Court of Appeals and brother of the Governor. Reports were rife last September, when Governor Lehman was being urged to save Democracy from Tom Dewey, that if the Governor would only run, his brother could order a new black robe and take his place at one end of the Supreme Bench. It is just because those reports were so frequently heard that it would be extremely embarrassing now for the President to appoint Mr. Lehman...
...girl in the background, and the young man who posed for both the male disciples were all used in well-known later paintings. Characteristic of Vermeer are the stiffly-painted garments and the delicate colors, lemon yellow and pearl grey, setting off the deep blue of Christ's robe. Dutch visitors, who like to look at works of art in absolute silence, complained that the parquet flooring in the room where Christ at Emmaus is hung was noisy. Carpets were immediately provided and religious silence prevailed...