Word: tintorettos
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Allston, the son of an aristocratic South Carolina family, first went to Boston as a student at Harvard, was infected with Boston's quickening interest in Europe's classical culture. He visited Italy and France, studied the immense compositions of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto. In 1811, he settled in England to paint like them. When he returned to Boston seven years later, his fame seemed secure...
...cluttered Rome studio to wait out modern art. Nowadays the aging (58) Italian master blushes at the melancholy fantasies-full of staring colonnades, long black five-o'clock shadows, twisted manikins-which made him famous. He had since passed through a Renoir period, a Titian-Tintoretto period and into a Salvator Rosa period...
During the war years no gilt-edged Old Masters of the Andrew Mellon-J. P. Morgan class have changed hands at auction. Recent sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...
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...