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Possibly the best known picture in the entire collection is the self-portrait of the aging Rembrandt in a velvet cap. Other famed numbers include Titian's Man in a Red Cap, Titian's portrait of the bearded, obscene Pietro Aretino; Raeburn's portraits of James Cruickshank & wife; the immensely valuable St. Francis in Ecstacy by Giovanni Bellini; eleven Fragonard panels for which Frick reputedly paid J. P. Morgan more than...
...line of duty Their Majesties are prepared to receive almost any female against whom nothing is positively known and who is sponsored by her country's envoy. In the South good Squire Bingham has few cronies closer than Judge Shepard Bryan of Atlanta. In turn Judge Bryan's Titian-haired, freckle-faced daughter Mary, of Oglethorpe University, has few chums closer than that peaches & cream sub-deb pair, Louise Richardson and Anne Alston. Twice has Anne Alston been crowned "Queen of the May," first at Atlanta's Washington Seminary and again this year at Ogontz, near Philadelphia...
...Titian's beast" as he calls it, "without any question was painted for a bagnio and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong. In truth, it is too strong for any place but a public Art Gallery." J. G. BUTLER...
Under Art in your issues of May 20 and May 27 you have printed nudes by Kroll and Titian respectively. Do you remember when you were a lad in your teens, perhaps attending preparatory or high school? Do you recall the almost unanimous and inevitable verbal and mental reaction on boys by the exhibition of female nudity in such pictures? To 99 boys out of 100 it is not art, but sex. Art is newsworthy and TIME-worthy; sex is not. For the sake of thousands of high school boys who read TIME why not select pictures for your...
...come Mark Twain "became incensed" at the position of the left hand of Titian's Venus? All I can see in the left hand of the picture of Titian's Venus is a bunch of leaves-I can't see anything to become incensed over unless the leaves are poison...