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Massed tier on tier in the galleries are the canvases of dozens of topflight artists from 13th century Italians to 19th century French impressionists. Sample wholesale lots: 27 Rembrandts (including The Re turn of the Prodigal Son, often called his best work), 40 Rubens, at least a dozen each of...
The young realists certainly do. In a forthcoming book (Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman) Painters Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth give professional appraisals. Hopper "does what he sets out to do," Levine says admiringly. "No dreams of the old masters set him off his course . . . Hopper looks inland. He...
Paths of the Future. The exhibit proves the magnitude of the Carracci's achievement in cleaning up in the wake of the Renaissance masters, codifying their discoveries into the greatest surviving art tradition of Western Europe. At one level their conversion of Renaissance ideals into an academic package of...
We are very pleased with the coverage given to our Rubens exhibition. Not only is the story a good one, but I think your selection of illustrations was excellent.
Greatest of Dresden's art patrons was Augustus III (1696-1763), both Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, who lived for art, was willing to spend as much as "twelve barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such...