Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Winnipeg Art Gallery last year invited Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt to come from Vienna as the director of the museum, he was immediately attracted by the idea of building up the young (established in 1932) institution. But he was not impressed by the gallery's collection of "old...
¶A stiff religious painting, called a Rubens and valued at $5,000, which was probably painted by a follower of Van Dyck.
At the entrance to a Paris exhibition stood a blue-uniformed policeman. "En-trez, Messieurs-Mesdames," he called, "everything you see around you is false." The show, organized by the Surete Generale to increase vigilance against artistic forgeries, contained fake stamps, coins, "neolithic'' pottery, manuscripts and old masters...
By the souped-up standards of the contemporary historical novel, things are pretty tame. Jude saves a young-girl from making a fool of herself over an old man by doing her portrait as if she had drowned herself, like the old man's previous young wife; Jude flirts...
You have given us a most beautiful picture in Rubens' "Holy Family with the Dove" [Nov. 30]. In ancient paintings of religious life the dove represented the Holy Ghost, and the Bible says: "And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him...