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...background figures, and that Fra Filippo is responsible for the sharply characterized foreground figures on the right. Other standouts in the collection are Benozzo Gozzoli's Dance of Salome and Beheading of St. John the Baptist, a grisaille (grey monochrome) frieze by Giovanni Bellini, portraits by Mantegna, Titian and Tintoretto, no less than five Tiepolos, two Dürers, two Chardins, two Ingres, and two Poussins, including the coolly constructed Holy Family on the Steps...
...celebrating its 35th anniversary, the hard way, with a well-calculated buying spree. Since the first of the year, Cleveland has bought four Venetian masterpieces: Lotto's Portrait of a Nobleman, Veronese's The Annunciation, Tintoretto's magnificent Baptism of Christ, and a hitherto unknown Titian entitled Portrait of a Prelate. Put on exhibition last week, the four Venetians gave new luster to a museum that was already one of the nation's best...
...Would [Censor Breen] advocate that portions be cut out from the canvases of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian or El Greco because they depict certain parts of human anatomy...
Charles V, Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, once picked up a paintbrush Titian had dropped and handed it to him with the words, "Titian deserves to be served by Caesar." The female magnificence of Titian's Danae and the male craftiness of his Pope Paul III in last week's show confirmed the emperor's judgment. Philip IV, Habsburg King of Spain, had patronized Diego Velasquez, whose pictures of the king's little daughter, the stiffly costumed Infanta Margareta Teresa, were among the most brilliant and humanly pathetic portraits ever painted...
When he had learned all that Rubens could teach him, Van Dyck made a trip to London, where he was ignored, and then circled down to Italy, where he found new old masters whose work taught him as much as Rubens' had: Titian and Veronese. Their paintings strengthened his like a blood transfusion, flooding his pictures with dark, rich colors and dignifying their shadowed backgrounds with glimpses of formal gardens, pillars and balustrades. With his liveried servants and coach & four, Van Dyck earned nothing but sneers from Rome's bohemian painters. But his manners as well...