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The overwhelming impression conveyed by the great baroque masters of the 17th century, from Caravaggio to Rubens, is their delight in optical illusions, soaring space, voluptuous forms and twisting asymmetrical line. Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, a long-forgotten 17th century artist who achieved his first one-man show in...
Some of Meadows' bad luck was still trailing along with him. About 18 of the works earlier donated by him to S.M.U., including three attributed to El Greco and two each to Rubens and Van Dyck, may have to have their name tags changed, according to S.M.U. Dean of...
At first Peale relied principally on his youngest brother, James, to aid him in his flourishing portrait studio: C. W. did the full-length oils; James specialized in precise but ethereal miniatures. Then James's younger daughter, Miriam, came along to become the U.S.'s first professional woman...
To add to the gang's woes, the criminal underworld was less than patient with such a crime-especially when Scotland Yard began systematically raiding their haunts in a search for the paintings. Two days after the theft, a tip from the underworld brought police to an apartment where...
-Tintoretto, Rubens, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto; his problem from the beginning was that he kept leaving off the halos. His taste for reality over illusion distressed his teacher, Academician Thomas Couture, whose 1847 uncostumed orgy, Romans of the Decadence, was the hit of the day. Manet's mother...