Word: rubenses
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The "narrative" of the galleries is split in half. On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are -- Daumier, Millet, the Barbizon painters, Fantin-Latour, the rural sentimentalists like Jules Breton, culminating in...
He had ample reason for suspicion. In 1974 Irish Republican Army sympathizers stole 19 paintings from the mansion and attempted to exchange them for $1.25 million and the transfer of several colleagues from English prisons to jails in Northern Ireland. The ransom was refused. Eight days later, the works were...
It was not unknown for the face to fall off a Reynolds portrait if it was shaken. Obsessed with technique, he was said to have scraped patches off his own Titian and Rubens, and was known to have destroyed a Watteau, in search of the "secrets" of the old masters...
Charles Willson Peale named some of his children after artists and others after scientists. Taking his name very seriously, Rembrandt Peale grew up to be one of America's important early painters. Last week he also became the priciest. The National Gallery of Art paid $4.07 million for his Rubens...
Painted in 1801, Rubens set a standard for the informal portraiture that became an American trademark. Peale family lore has it that at age 17, Rubens planted the seeds of the geranium, supposedly the first one cultivated in the U.S. Said National Gallery Art Director J. Carter Brown: "It is...