Word: splendrously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concealed his picture under the bed. The most elaborately composed portrait, that of Monsignor Hugh Henry, shows a genuine figure of strength and integrity, yet strangely mocked by a grinning image of Leo XIII in the background. Conversely, an expression of utmost anguish mitigates the authority suggested by the splendrous vestments of Monsignor James Loughlin...
...1600s, in spite of wars with Spain and brutal religious repression, saw the flowering of one incomparable painter after another-Vermeer and Rembrandt in Holland, Rubens and Van Dyck in Flanders. As a result, Jordaens passed into history as something of an also-ran. Now, thanks to a splendrous 315-work display of paintings, tapestries, drawings and prints at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Jordaens is finally getting the kind of full-beam spotlight necessary to illuminate his artistic individuality in all its flaws and triumphs...