Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If the novel has a hero, it is Nicholas Reverey, an honorable, fortyish art dealer who has an eye as acute as the late David Carritt's. The love interest is provided by Jill Newman, who manages to churn out gossip for a rag called That Woman! as well...
The $3.25 million price was the largest ever paid for an American painting. But what would no doubt please Painter Samuel F.B. Morse more is the fact that his canvas Gallery of the Louvre has been plucked from dusty storage at Syracuse University, and will now be displayed with due...
And he does. Austin's larcenous achievement serves as the vehicle for a favorite Shepard effect: the symbolic over-abundance of food-stuffs. In Buried Child vegetables from the backyard garden were heaped on the stage in Rubens-esque quantities. True West serves up toast made in the five toasters...
John D. Rockefeller's best-known son was Nelson-four-time Governor of New York, a man of great energy and stamina who harvested Venezuelan chili peppers with the same zest that he collected modern art. Rockefeller owned some of the world's costliest real estate, but for...
All over Europe the Germans are famous as nude sun bathers. But at home in their own cities a certain sartorial conservatism has long applied. This summer, though, in the city of Munich, a terrible uproar arose as crowds of young nudists began nonchalantly strolling alongside fully clothed pedestrians in...