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...Sibelius was the only major composer to live longer (91). Schütz and Verdi died at 87, Telemann and Saint-Saëns at 86, and Vaughan Williams and Richard Strauss...
...only time I've seen a man on his knees, he's been chasing a collar stud." She is the most perceptive writer, the only one who can make a meaningful connection between her research and the dramatic situation. A grandmother at 66, she lives in Bury Saint Edmunds, the ancient market town where she was born, in a Manderley-size house whose architecture manages to combine Tudor, Queen Anne and Georgian periods. There is a Rolls in the garage, but the author insists: "Except for gin and cigarettes, I could live on a pound a week...
...Duke or Saint. This week Britain's National Gallery will put the panel on show cleaned, the halo and lettering removed (they are by a later hand), and identified as a lost work by the great Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden. After long negotiation with the estate of Lady Baird, who died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci...
...National Gallery cautiously prefers to stick with St. Ivo. "The natural pose would be extraordinary if the picture were of Philip, merely somewhat unusual but nevertheless remarkable if it were of a saint," says Director Martin Davies. Yet the scholarly debate will certainly go on. The impassioned detail from the heavy eyes and fine-drawn skin to the sensitive mouth, argue a living model whose exact image Rogier van der Weyden was determined to record. Duke or saint, the painting is one of the most precious art discoveries of the past ten years...
...Then at the height of his fame he was hit by an incurable cancer and died without witnessing the full impact of his ideas. Though only 32 years have passed since his death, that impact now seems largely spent, and Freud himself sometimes appears little more than a joke saint of pop cult. Many of his ideas have been openly repudiated by the new humanistic psychologies, and some recently published evidence indicates that the apostle of emotional honesty carried on a tatty affair with his wife's younger sister. What Freud could use right now is a major revaluation...