Word: titians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was past 80, Giovanni Bellini cleaned his brushes and closed his eyes for the last time. He himself was leaving Venice richer than he had found it; and two of his students gave the old man cause for pride. They were Giorgione and Titian...
...Titian-haired Virginia Cunningham, whose trouble is schizophrenia, is the heroine of Mary Jane Ward's novel, The Snake Pit, which has already caused a mild stir in psychiatric circles, and netted Author Ward over $100,000 in advance royalties. It is based on Author Ward's own experience as a patient in an Eastern mental hospital...
...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...
...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...