Word: tintorettos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisans of Adam & Eve navels include no known Communists (as professional atheists, Communists do not believe in Adam & Eve), do include such great Renaissance religious painters as Tintoretto, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted a navel on his recumbent figure of Adam in the Pope's Sistine Chapel, died (1564) without ever having heard of Karl Marx, Stalin or Earl Browder...
...through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon Delacroix and Tintoretto...
Manhattan gallerygoers, long familiar with Critic Cortissoz' crisply expressed enthusiasms and prejudices, were not surprised to find few 20th-century paintings in his hand-picked anthology. In the exclusive company of Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Renoir, only twelve U.S. artists (all dead) made the grade...