Word: rubenses
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ANTHONY VAN DYCK, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Child prodigy, assistant to Rubens, Van Dyck rose to become a major artistic force in 17th century Europe and a potent influence on painters in the 18th century and beyond. Here are more than 100 examples of his bold virtuosity in portraits...
Nevertheless, for most of his career Titian's pictorial elocution was so smooth, so inventive, so grand in its effects and masterly in its execution that it created a sense of helplessness in others. He was the 16th century's unrivaled topographer of male power and female beauty, as Rubens...
-- First, some of the S&L assets are good. For example: the home of David Paul, until recently chairman of Miami's CenTrust Savings. CenTrust is the thrift that it's estimated will cost taxpayers $2 billion; Paul is the man who bought a $13 million Rubens for the bank...
But beyond this, Rowlandson absorbed -- and anglicized -- a general style: he was a rococo artist, though this is partly hidden by his love of satire (never a rococo trait). He constructed his designs from whiplash lines and curvilinear rhythms. He was devoted to Rubens, preserving on a tiny scale the...