Word: titian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many ways, the most magnificent show of the season was the one displayed at Wildenstein & Co. To celebrate the firm's soth year in the U.S., Wildenstein's borrowed back 62 of the masterpieces the gallery had sold to U.S. museums and collectors. Among them: Titian's heroic Man with the Falcon, Watteau's romantic The Mezzetin and Cezanne's spacious Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffon...
Among the paintings on exhibition are El Greco's "Fray Felix Hortension Palavicino," Van Der Weyden's "St. Luke Painting the Madonna," and Titian's "St. Catherine of Alexandria...
...have ever wondered whether that is a blonde wig or a titian wig that Milton Berle dons at the height of his humor, or if you have ever had a great yearning to see that dark-haired girl roller-derby-skater with the Jersey Jolters in all her beauty, you are soon going to get your chance. The Supreme Court decided the other day to let C.B.S. put a little color wheel in front of your TV set that will cause all which now seems mere black-and-white to take on a multi-colored...
...County Attorney John Duffy, a Notre Dame graduate who takes his knowledge of literature seriously looked over the evidence. The obscene books turned out to include bestsellers by Somerset Maugham, MacKinlay Kantor and John Steinbeck, and a collection of art masterpieces which had in it nudes by Velasquez and Titian. He dismissed the charge and for doing so forthwith got the clubwomen on his neck. They thought that such books should be barred from the newsstands and put out of reach of children. Duffy invited them to appear before the Dubuque grand jury and state their case, countered by sending...
...background figures, and that Fra Filippo is responsible for the sharply characterized foreground figures on the right. Other standouts in the collection are Benozzo Gozzoli's Dance of Salome and Beheading of St. John the Baptist, a grisaille (grey monochrome) frieze by Giovanni Bellini, portraits by Mantegna, Titian and Tintoretto, no less than five Tiepolos, two Dürers, two Chardins, two Ingres, and two Poussins, including the coolly constructed Holy Family on the Steps...