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...Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson) had recognized his genius. "The picture dealers, picture cleaners, picture-frame makers and other connoisseurs"- as he contemptuously called his critics- thought Hogarth's work could never compare with what he dubbed "the old black masters." Said Hogarth: "They think I hate Titian, and let them...
...England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost for the Highest." "That...
...Titian: Christ Crowned with Thorns at about...
...prove his point, Dr. Daley had an artist make tracings of Mono, Lisa, Titian's Man in a Red Cap and Holbein's Erasmus and alter the tracings to show how "dull and uninteresting" they look with noses altered to suit modern standards. As further evidence he has kept his own magnificently large, arched, craggy and overhanging...
...well-fed Venus by Titian at $55,000 tops the list. Going at $16,500 are two Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...