Word: tintorettos
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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...
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the Clarence Mackay collection) was perhaps his best-loved "child...
...hundred volumes of keyboard music dating from about the year 1500. The complete range of organ music is covered, with the works of all major composers for the organ included. The collection is steadily growing. The new room in which it is housed is paneled in English oak. A Tintoretto painting. "The Angel Choir," was given by Mrs. Isham for the room...
...show had both splendors and curiosities. One Renaissance painting shown for the first time in the U. S. was Tintoretto's Lucretia and Tarquinius (see cut), lent indefinitely by one of Paris' apprehensive art collectors. One of the few first-rate Tintorettos to be seen outside Europe, the picture interested students for its Michelangelesque distortions (as in Tarquinius' leg), its hint of El Greco pattern in the nervous, lightning-like highlights on the strewn drapery, and such tricky details as the falling cushion and pearls, one of which is caught symbolically in Lucretia's shift...
Though he follows international affairs with a lively interest, Composer Strauss is fundamentally a man of old-world tastes. A connoisseur of painting, he prefers, and owns, pictures by El Greco, Rubens, Tintoretto. His favorite reading is history and biography, and he will spend many hours at a stretch poring over formidable, many-volumed records of the past...