Word: titian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VENICE, a city that dreams much of the past, has staged six retrospective exhibitions of her long dead masters since 1935. Having already shown off her greatest-Bellini, Titian and Tintoretto-Venice this summer is doing homage to a lesser genius: Lorenzo Lotto. The city has gathered 121 Lottos from such faraway places as Stockholm and New York, hung them in a 16-room suite of the Doges' Palace. Its high, cool chambers, with coffered ceilings and huge chimney pieces, make almost too grand a setting for Lotto...
Flesh & Florins. Puzzled by his cool, delicate style, Lotto's fellow Venitians much preferred the flesh and blood magnificence of his giant contemporary, Titian. So Lotto roamed Italy's small towns, picking up a commission for a church mural here, a portrait there. In 1554, when he was 72, Lotto turned himself and his belongings over to the Holy House at Loreto, because he was "tired of wandering." The contract provided that the monks would say prayers for him, and that he would have one florin a month "to do what he pleased with...
...Eyck. More likely he learned it in Naples, from a copyist of Flemish paintings. For a year (1475-76) he taught the technique in Venice, where even the great Giovanni Bellini was eager to learn from him. What Antonello brought to Bellini (and through him, to Titian, Giorgione and Italian art in general) was nothing less than a new tool for rendering light. Having accomplished that, he returned to Messina...
Died. Arthur Stanley Riggs, 73, historian (The Romance of Human Progress, Titian the Magnificent, Velasquez) and longtime (1905-25) traveling lecturer on art, archeology and history; in Washington...
Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 27, titian-haired cinemactress (The Outriders, Scene of the Crime): Lex Barker, 33, Hollywood's tenth "Tarzan," after charging that he called her "a hick from Minnesota" because she refused a predinner cocktail; after 18 months of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...