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Word: titian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Ruskin, the reigning art pundit of the day, wrote that Whistler was "a coxcomb, flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a farcical libel trial in which one of Whistler's paintings was displayed upside down and the jury mistook a Titian for a Whistler, the painter won damages of 1 farthing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scorpions & Butterflies | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Amadore Porcella, an enthusiastic authenticator described as a Vatican art expert. Porcella ticked seven of them off as a Caravaggio, a Lotto, a Tintoretto, and some assorted smaller fry. (In Rome last week he denied that he had identified the other three as a Raphael, another Tintoretto and a Titian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Found & Lost | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...will of her mother, who died last November, titian-topped Cinemactress Greer Garson, already passably well off as the wife of millionaire Texas Oilman E. E. ("Buddy") Fogelson, will inherit an estate of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian's Rape of Europa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Collectors | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

This was no garden-variety variety show, for Fred Astaire is a professional perfectionist. He and his troupe sweated through seven weeks of rehearsal. Every step was planned; every word was carefully timed. And the end result was the essence of relaxation. Titian-haired young (23) Barrie Chase, Fred's new partner, fitted into his new routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: It Can Be Great | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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