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...Titian's Secret. Rico Lebrun came to the U.S. at 24, when the Naples stained-glass factory for which he was working got a contract from a branch of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. in Springfield, Ill. Giving up glassmaking a year later, he went on to a stint as a commercial artist (he did ads for Peck & Peck and spot drawings for The New Yorker), a couple of Guggenheim fellowships, posts at various U.S. colleges and universities. His serious paintings and drawings were from the start shrill cries of pain. There are two kinds of artist, says Lebrun...
...three drawings by Michelangelo, the sculptor struggles to discover the proper angle for a tensely muscular leg, later carved in marble for the famous figure Night in the Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Titian is represented by a study of legs done in thick black chalk a decade before the resulting painting, Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo, was hung in the church of the Jesuits in Venice. On a sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes...
Realism Turns Unreal. He tirelessly sketched models of Greek and Roman statues, studied Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, and most of all, El Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...
...blazes in a crescendo of awakening love between Bert Parks and his shy sweetheart. The baton in the orchestra pit below is not wielded by the usual bald male conductor, but by a very pretty young lady who might have just defected from the chorus onstage. With striking Titian-red hair, plus face and figure to match, Liza Redfield has the looks for anything except what she is: Broadway's first fulltime woman conductor...
...point of numbers, Rubens dominates the Pinakothek, with no less than 74 examples. Van Dyck comes next with 26, and Rembrandt has ten. Such Italians as Titian, Tintoretto and Raphael are splendidly if sparsely represented. But the real heart of the museum is Dürer and the northerners he influenced...