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...life, usually eats alone and frugally, wears out-at-the-elbow sweaters. A notorious penny pincher, he passes out tips sparingly, constantly grumbles about the high cost of everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, and perhaps the best U.S. collection of Louis XV and XVI furniture) and the zoo (four buffalo, two bears, an Abyssinian mountain goat), adjoining the Malibu home he has not visited in five years...
...inland. He's an American painter all the way." Wyeth goes farther still: "What makes Rembrandt so very great is that his concern for other people and for nature always shows through, giving his paintings a dimension of identification and self-effacement that is almost unique in art. Titian doesn't have it, and certainly Rubens doesn't. Hopper...
...century a strange, aloof figure - came to the Spanish hilltop town of Toledo. His origins were obscure, and his name-Domenikos Theotokopoulos-was so difficult that he was called simply El Greco (The Greek). He said he was born in Crete, boasted that he had been a student of Titian and, as one Toledo Spaniard recorded, "he let it be understood that nothing in the world was superior to his art." Certainly the stranger had at his brush tip not only Titian's designs but also all the secrets of Tintoretto's theatrical fireworks and Correggio...
...gondolas, the sunsets, the changing light, Florian's, Quadri's, Torcello, Harry's Bar, Murano, Burano, the pigeons, the glass beads, the vaporetto. Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp of a rangy mind not to be fobbed off with commonplaces. To get the feel...
...dazzling were the results that generations of critics confidently put the Carracci in a class with the greats: Michelangelo, Giorgione, Titian, Correggio, Raphael. But by the 19th century their repute had fallen so far that John Ruskin could dismiss their work contemptuously as "the scum of Titian." Bologna, proud of its own, decided this year once again to pit the Carracci against the critics, for the past two months has been staging the biggest Carracci show ever: 115 canvases and 250 sketches chosen from museums the world over. To the surprise of the sponsors, the Carracci have turned...