Word: tintorettos
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...Photographer Dmitri Kessel worked eight days to get one picture in authentic color of Tintoretto's The Annunciation in Venice's School of San Rocco. One of his biggest problems was to keep both his camera and the 166-in. -by-214 ½-inch framed painting, which had been on the wall for almost 400 years, dead still for a 45-minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture...
...even that would hardly have bothered Shaw. If he could not find a controversial subject in the concert hall, he got one from outside. He took for granted that a music column was just the place for discussions of a Dickens novel, the French Revolution, the paintings of Tintoretto, Ibsen's Wild Duck, the salaries of bishops. "Musical criticisms," wrote he, "like sermons, are of low average quality simply because they are never discussed or contradicted." What 20th century music needs, among other things, is more sermons like Preacher Shaw...
...National Gallery's Italian Renaissance collection has always been topnotch, except for high-Renaissance (16th and 17th century) art. The Kress gifts will correct that weakness as well, if only by the announced addition of three masterpieces, by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, from the golden age of Venice. Zurbaran's big convent picture will give new weight to the Spanish section, and Watteau's charming Ceres will add a lift to the 18th century French collection...
...small Soviet retinue and reporters, including the New York Times's Russian-speaking Reporter Harrison E. Salisbury, longtime (1949-54) Moscow correspondent. Molotov spun through 40 rooms of art in an hour, suggesting by changes in his usually granite features that he was taken by Rubens and Tintoretto, curious about an obscure painting of J. P. Morgan-by Carlos Baca-Flor, disdainful of Salvador Dali's recent The Crucifixion. After seeing the best of the Met's European works, Molotov asked to see some American paintings...
...names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with a Tintoretto, a Renoir and a Gobelin tapestry; Bank President (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Walther Moreira Salles is donor of a Picasso, a Degas and a Modigliani; Sugar Magnate Fulvio Morganti is down for a Utrillo; Financier Adriano Seabra gave a Titian. In all, persuasive Chato has roped...