Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lover of Life is not to be confused with Irving Stone's Lust For Life (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935), nor is it likely to be. Both are bio-novels about painters. But about living, Life-Lover Pieter Paul Rubens was measurably less hot under the ruff than Life-Luster...
Died. Colonel Horatio Seymour Rubens, 71, last surviving member of the original Junta which fought to free Cuba from Spain; after a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Art connoisseurs found the National Gallery's strong points were: 1) the Kress collection of Italian art, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the U. S.; 2) a gallery of nine over-average Rembrandts; 3) a bevy of British mantelpiece portraits, including Sir Joshua Reynolds' famed...
Painting was fun for Auguste Renoir all his life long. Women were his never-failing subjects. He painted them in bustles and fichus, gaily sipping aperitifs in cafés along the Seine, waltzing on the crowded floor of the Moulin de la Galette, undressing, getting out of bed, bathing...
Boston gallerygoers recognized many a familiar Renaissance portrait, marveled at the contemporary look of Prince Ankh-haef's bust, tried to decide whether a terracotta bust of an unknown pre-Christian Roman looked more like Senator David I. Walsh or President Roosevelt. Most popular cynosure was Thomas Sully'...