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...lights change to a fixed "DON'T WALK" for traffic to contentedly break into a shuffle. Just then a 9-year-old girl, blonde hair wheeling, a Titian on thin limbs, ambles resolutely into the street, waving her cigarette. The cars squeeze to stop, the girl reaches the opposite bank and vanishes into the faulted crowd. If Moses were alive today he wouldn't be a bearded patriarch swinging a knobby wand...
What's the very latest flight of fancy on Manhattan's fluttery gallery row? Rembrandt's The Night Watch. Rembrandt's The Night Watch? That's right, along with Titian, Fragonard and Van Dyck. As portrayed by John Clem Clarke, 30, a former football hero from Oregon State, these are old masters with a new twist. For his first show, which opened at Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery last week, Clarke projected color slides of famous paintings onto large sheets of heavy paper, then clipped out stencils of their shapes, then sprayed layers of paint...
...early, conventional portrait done by Titian around 1525, from Omaha, hangs near his 1565, darkly haunting Ecce Homo, from St. Louis. The contrast between the pair illustrates the degree to which the Venetian evolved his own austere, luminous, intensely personal style that became finer and more influential among succeeding generations...
...James specialized in precise but ethereal miniatures. Then James's younger daughter, Miriam, came along to become the U.S.'s first professional woman painter. Six of Charles Willson's children died in infancy, but among the survivors, ambitiously christened for the Renaissance greats, were Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian and Raphaelle. Both Rembrandt and Raphaelle went into the family business. Rembrandt traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a glossy, Continental technique, became highly successful and portrayed the likes of Dolley Madison and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Raphaelle, a seeming failure, had drunk himself to death...
...explained Zurich's David Koetser, 58, "I am getting on in age. So I thought I would like to make a gift during my lifetime." With that, he presented to London's National Gallery the Allegory of Prudence, a magnificent 30-in.-by-27-in. canvas by Titian. The gift is valued...