Word: titians
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...burn out. His name has lasted three centuries. Which is not to say that he has altogether received his due. In a curious way, Van Dyck remains a somewhat underrated artist, as anyone might if he had to be constantly compared with Rubens, his master, and Titian, his even greater model. Especially, he is not well known to the American public, though some of his finest paintings are in America, owing to the vogue for his portraits among the robber barons of the early 20th century. Those who saw "Van Dyck in England," organized by Oliver Millar for the National...
...commemoration to religious allegory. His big religious paintings, mostly for Flemish churches, are bravura performances, but none of them have the trumpeting conviction or the sheer inventiveness of Rubens'. His best paintings were his portraits and his secular allegories, like Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, done under the spell of Titian. Taken from Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered, a great favorite at Charles' court, it illustrates the moment when the sorceress Armida falls in love with the wandering Christian knight Rinaldo on glimpsing his sleeping face. The sensuous color, the glow of flesh and even the eyeline of the scene...
...TITIAN: PRINCE OF PAINTERS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. A partial but still magnificent sampling of the work of the 16th century's unrivaled topographer of male power and female beauty -- a portraitist who brought the projection of character to new heights. Through...
...irresponsible. Yet museums still feel obliged to lend paintings as hostages to others to ensure reciprocal loans. Only this can explain, for instance, why the National Gallery refused to move its Feast of the Gods (the figures by Bellini, the deep and magically sonorous landscape background by his apprentice Titian) a few city blocks to the Phillips Collection's "Pastoral Landscape" show in 1988, whose centerpiece it should have been, but had no compunction about flying it back and forth across the Atlantic in 1990. There is something opportunistic about such policies, and this show will be remembered...
...Titian exhibit short on masterpieces...