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Great are the master painters produced by Venice, but none of them, neither Titian nor Tintoretto, Giorgione nor even Francesco Guardi, to judge from their work, took so much delight in the sights and sounds of that city as did Vittore Carpaccio. He obviously loved Venice's busy canals, its processions and pageantry, its fairy-tale architecture-almost every aspect of the place, in fact, down to the brightness of its gondoliers' jerkins and the workmanship of a beautifully wrought bolt on a door. Last week Venice returned the compliment by opening in the Doge's Palace...
Born. To Moira Shearer, 37, titian-haired British ballerina-actress (The Red Shoes) and Ludovic Kennedy, 43, radio and TV broadcaster and sometime Liberal politician: their fourth child, first son; in Amersham, Buckingham...
...most famous painting in the world. Mysterious glory, which does not derive from genius alone. Other illustrious portraits can be compared to this one. But every year a few poor deluded women think they are Mona Lisa, yet not one ever thinks she is a figure by Raphael, by Titian or by Rembrandt . . . There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. They are real, though exaggerated. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day at Arromanches*-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more...
...feel a great pride," says Milliken, "when you find that in Currier Gallery in Manchester, N.H., you have a masterpiece of the abstract period of Picasso. The show lets one realize that throughout the country in so many smaller museums there are masterpieces−the Titian in Omaha, the Delacroix in Chapel Hill, the Terbrugghen from Oberlin...
Lebrun has little use for those obsessed by technique, or for those who endlessly dissect the old masters to find some secret gimmick. "The secret of Titian," says he, "is that he was Titian." In his drawings, Lebrun aims first for speed, in order to get his whole vision down before it shreds apart in his mind. He starts with black, white and grey, which he regards as the colors of memory. When the first sketch is finished, it can be reworked indefinitely. Gradually the work takes on depth, as if it had been built up layer upon layer...