Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Silenus. In Athenian drama, Pappo-silenus (Daddy Silenus) was the father of many Silenuses. In Greek mythology the handsome Hermes begat a single Silenus. This paunchy roisterer was the tutor of Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken...
In 1883, Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet...
Among the artists represented in the current exhibit are such well-known artists as Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyke, all of whom painted during the seventeenth century, the high water period of Dutch and Flemish art.
What penance may society exact from an Irish elevator-man who, disgruntled over his pay, gets drunk, steals and drinks a house holder's Canadian ale, gnaws the householder's baked ham, belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the...
In the drawing-room, Mr. Healy began to throw things and the others joined him. The bottles were their favorite ammunition, but when the last pint had crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked...