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...them. The photos you published show no resemblance between his works and the ones they are supposedly copied from. The article ends by quoting Picasso's remark that "art has neither a past nor a future." A quotation more revealing of Picasso's attitude to art might have been: "Titian and Rembrandt were great painters: I am only a public entertainer who has understood...the imbecility, the vanity, the stupidity of his contemporaries." Having fooled a generation of "masters and critics," as he called them, Picasso was no longer able to fool himself. Ian Macdonald, Sydney...
...produce catalogues and other research for them. The lending policy isn't limitless, either: earlier this year the Louvre pulled out of a show that a private promoter was mounting in Verona, Italy. The Louvre would have received $6.4 million for loaning various famous pictures, including portraits by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, but the idea of working on a commercial basis with a private operator caused concern among some curators. When the promoter changed the venue, Loyrette withdrew...
...began his apprenticeship with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...
...first view most of the world had of Dubrovnik was of its red-tiled roofs disappearing behind clouds of black smoke during shelling by Serb and Montenegrin artillery in the fall of 1991. The threat to this walled medieval city on the Dalmatian coast, with its Renaissance palaces, Titian masterpieces and lemon-scented cloisters, brought home the pointlessness and savagery of the Balkan wars. Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, recalls being horrified by the attack. "I could not believe," she says, "that someone--anyone--could have fired a single shot...
...which opens this week at London's National Gallery and runs through May 23. Born in 1541, Theotokópoulos moved to Venice soon after 1566, and then to Rome in 1570, where he lived in the Palazzo Farnese. While in Italy, he learned from Renaissance masters like Titian, Tintoretto and Michelangelo, and Mannerists like Parmigianino. He readily took on their style; one of several versions of the Purification of the Temple, from the 1570s, quotes extensively from Raphael and Michelangelo. Yet he failed to find great success in Italy, possibly because he made disparaging remarks about Michelangelo, and thus...