Word: titian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hippocrates, retained his faculties until the end, died (according to Cicero) with "pen in hand" at 80. Michelangelo worked hard as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania...
...years of avid collecting before his death three years ago. the man all Rotterdam knew as "D.G." gathered together so many works that he was forced to hang Rembrandt drawings inside cupboard doors. Other artists in the collection included Rubens, Dürer. Michelangelo, Van Ruysdael. Goya. Titian, Van Gogh and Rodin; among the best works were Jan van Eyck's The Three Marias, Bruegel's Tower of Babel. Experts put the value at more than $25 million...
...Chrysler Art Museum features 76 oils and 12 sculptures, ranging from Hieronymus Bosch to Picasso. Valued at $1,700,000, the exhibition is but a fraction of Chrysler's total collection ("I began buying at 14, out of my allowance"), includes some topnotch masterpieces (Tintoretto's Flora, Titian's Portrait of the Admiral Vincenzo Capello, Soutine's Valet de Chambre), as well as some not-so-great works by great masters (Renoir's Pheasant, Derain's Renaissance-style Portrait of Lady Adby), which have good names if not topmost quality...
Largesse & Looting. France's "Sun King," Louis XIV, let fall his rays first on the Louvre before building Versailles, tripled and quadrupled the royal collection. Into the royal preserve came such masterpieces as Titian's Young Woman at Her Toilet (the property of Britain's Charles I until his beheading) and Titian's Madonna with a Rabbit (which Louis won from a French duke at tennis...
Divorced. By Rhonda Fleming (real name: Marilyn Louis), 34, titian-haired cinemelon (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral): Dr. Lewis V. Morrill Jr., 41, Beverly Hills surgeon; after six years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Rhonda's novel reason why their union hit the rocks: "He said he was sacrificing his career...