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...never hypocritical, handled a realistic situation in no vulgar manner. Indeed, the picture was correct, tart, informative, in good taste. It had the mystery of Dore's sketches, a good deal of the expression so common to Raphael's paintings, a shading akin to that found in Titian's masterpieces, and even that artistic sense of proportion found in Michelangelo's creations...
...have bought lavishly and well. Critics picking their way through echoing marble galleries last week spotted at least half a dozen paintings of world importance: Velasquez' St. Peter; Rubens' Portrait of Old Parr; El Greco's Penitent Magdalene; Goya's Don Ignacio Omulryan y Rourera; Titian's Antoine Perrenot de Granvella; Nicolas Poussin's Triumph of Bacchus...
...last week was the centuries' meandering sequence of styles in painting, each example a world-famed masterpiece. And Director Harshe headlined the show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez...
...Jacopo Robusti (1518-94) was known as Tintoretto because his father was a Venetian dyer. An admirer, never a friend, of the great Titian, he painted innumerable murky powerful portraits of the Doges and Senators of Venice, great intricate murals. In an age when all artists were commercial artists he was one of the first to adopt an advertising slogan. Outside his studio was an inscription...
...drawing of Michelangelo and the color of Titian...