Word: tintorettos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week Banker John Pierpont Morgan by the purchase of a Tintoretto for a reputed $100,000 made his first addition to his father's $300,000,000 collection of paintings, now partly dispersed...
...Gallery XVII there are several notable loans which will probably remain in the Museum's hands over the summer. Mr. Samuel Sachs of New York City has lent three pictures. Of these two are by Poussin, one representing the Holy Family and the other a classical scene. "Diana" by Tintoretto, a picture which Mr. Sachs lends annually to the Fogg for a period of six months, also appears in this gallery. John Nicholas Brown '22 has lent to the Museum an excellent picture by El Greco entitled "Saint Dominic." Most of the important paintings which were removed from this room...
...Tintoretto "Portrait of a Senator", presented to the Museum by the children of Charles Eliot Norton in honor of Norton's Centenary, celebrated yesterday at the Museum, is also exhibited, together with a Vittorio Criveili, a recent gift of Bernard Berenson '87, and Mrs. Berenson...
...phase of the matter, with Cezanne's relation to the movement of Impressionism, nor with the more complicated experiments of his technique in the fundamentals of form and light. One can easily find in those works in display much that is Classical, much that shows the influence of Courbet, Tintoretto, Rubens, and Delacroix. But what is most important is the realization of the subjective character of the exhibition and the willingness to 'look again' in an endeavor to penetrate the wall of unphotographic reality which will probably, with the majority of observers, obstruct their view...
...mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces and hands and walls that tilt with some interior volition- these he painted. To describe his paintings in this way is to speak principally of the thought that organized them; of his color critics have said "Tintoretto," of his fluidity "Byzantium." Whatever such words mean, let them stand. They are good tags because they mean little, explain nothing. No one has ever explained Dominico Theotocopuli. Neither arrogant nor humble, he loved arrogance and understood humility. He painted many gentlemen of Spain for their pride, their narrow hands, their...