Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Few men in history have struck a happier balance with their age or won richer rewards in return than Flemish Artist Peter Paul Rubens, master of Europe's baroque style at its 17th century peak. A staunch Roman Catholic, unquestioning Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful...
Price: $885,000. After an hour's stormy debate, enlivened by some outraged oratory (the price "represents about 650,000 bushels of wheat, or 6,000 grain-fed steers"), Parliament agreed to pick up the tab for Rubens' The Entombment of Christ, Martini's St. Catherine and...
ONE of the world's richest private collections, amassed by Spain's late Francisco de Assis Cambo, was back home last week after a 3½-year tug of war between Argentina and Spain. As the cream of the collection was readied for hanging in Barcelona's...
The triumph of Richard is the triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness...
Tricks & Skids. Willem de Kooning's Gotham News uses just about every trick in painting, except illusion, to create excitement. It is juicy à la Rubens, gaudy à la Delacroix, emphatic à la Vlaminck -and utterly ambiguous. Being too agitated for the purposes of either decoration or contemplation, De...