Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the Atheneum never lost its head over the moderns. It has had a friendly eye for such conservatives as Eakins and Andrew Wyeth, has spent much of recent purchase budgets (currently more than $50,000 a year) to build up its stock of the Renaissance and baroque schools. This...
The trouble was that Nakian felt he was crowding the "hairline between greatness and corniness." His work seemed too glib, too academic-and commercial. Nakian settled back to study his favorite masters-Titian, Rubens, Van Gogh, Cezanne-and read avidly through the Greek classics. The classics, he felt, had everything...
Jesuit Father Hernandez Heras, organizer of the exhibit, picked up d'Ors' idea of universalism and sailed it back. Could he accept "the Herculean forms of a prizefighter that Michelangelo gave God in the Sistine Chapel...the fat Flemish women Rubens painted as Virgins?" Heras, who teaches at...
Last week the villagers had reason to be sorry. The Belper painting, up for sale again, and catalogued as Rubens' The Carrying of the Cross, brought a tidy $14,000 at a London auction.
Lady Belper admitted she hadn't known it was a Rubens. "Of course, my husband knew," she explained. "But he's got so many lovely paintings I can't quite remember what they are."