Word: titians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some art lovers, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez is a Spanish Titian, to others a somewhat dismal virtuoso. But Spain's Habsburg-lipped Philip IV had no doubts about Velazquez' greatness. He took one look at Velazquez' first portrait of him, thereafter refused to let anybody else paint his picture, sat for 14 portraits by the methodical, meticulous court painter...
Partisans of Adam & Eve navels include no known Communists (as professional atheists, Communists do not believe in Adam & Eve), do include such great Renaissance religious painters as Tintoretto, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted a navel on his recumbent figure of Adam in the Pope's Sistine Chapel, died (1564) without ever having heard of Karl Marx, Stalin or Earl Browder...
Venus and 13 Bachelors. Soon some 450 great paintings were racked on pipeline scaffolds set up in the huge, thermostated hall where Financier Stotesbury once gave concerts for 1,000 guests. Among the hidden paintings were ten Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed...
Besides dancing better than ever before, Rita Hayworth looks more than ever like a model in brisk flight from Titian, and shows marked symptoms of acting. Even better is Gene Kelly. Few cinemactors can match his reticence, exact evocativeness and sincerity, or carry such acting abilities into dancing and singing (notably in Cover Girl, Put Me To The Test...
...weekend marches to Wellesley and the Statier are due to pick up when whites are broken out and tanned faces take their place in the sun. Practicing for those halcyon days to come, Giangrasso prowled the range unfettered at Eunice's Wellesley tea dance, and D.V. Weir entertained a titian-haired 5 by 5. Even Warner's happy return was shadowed by finding his roommates estranged, of all things, by a woman...