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...WHILE Titian was preparing a career that spanned the high Renaissance in Italy, a severe German artist named Albrecht Dürer turned up in Venice. Dürer's self-appointed mission: to soak up the best efforts of the Italian Renaissance and teach its lessons north of the Alps. Returning to Nurenberg, Dürer brought about a flowering of German and Flemish art in the early 16th century that ranks with the great moments of art history. The northern Renaissance was cooler, more metaphysical and clear-lined than its sensuous, rainbow-hued Italian source...
...when Ruskin, the reigning art pundit of the day, wrote that Whistler was "a coxcomb, flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a farcical libel trial in which one of Whistler's paintings was displayed upside down and the jury mistook a Titian for a Whistler, the painter won damages of 1 farthing...
...Amadore Porcella, an enthusiastic authenticator described as a Vatican art expert. Porcella ticked seven of them off as a Caravaggio, a Lotto, a Tintoretto, and some assorted smaller fry. (In Rome last week he denied that he had identified the other three as a Raphael, another Tintoretto and a Titian...
...will of her mother, who died last November, titian-topped Cinemactress Greer Garson, already passably well off as the wife of millionaire Texas Oilman E. E. ("Buddy") Fogelson, will inherit an estate of about...
...Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian's Rape of Europa...