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...spread his masterpieces around. In 1939 he gave 375 Renaissance paintings to Washington's National Gallery of Art (TIME, July 24, 1939). Since then, museums in Philadelphia, Tucson, Birmingham, Honolulu, Portland (Ore.). Seattle and Kansas City (Kans.) have been quietly handed some 200 masterpieces from the Kress treasure-trove, with no strings attached. Two of the latest beneficiaries on the list are Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and New Orleans' Isaac Delgado Museum of Art (see color pages...
...weeks, Dutch art lovers have been quietly celebrating the 100th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh without causing much of a stir in the world's art circles. But last week one of the big exhibitions produced the kind of unexpected treasure-trove that always sets the experts to buzzing...
...Christ that smiles and loves you and me." The sunny decor of Forest Lawn- "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"-reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added), has not found a picture of Christ that looks happy enough to go with his convictions...
...Palace. The Queen owns 600 of the Thames River's 800 swans, all sturgeons and whales caught in home waters, the land around the perimeter of the islands between high and low tide, all gold and silver mines in Britain (there are none to speak of), all treasure trove in Britain, and the exclusive right to search for oil in the United Kingdom...
Schliemann was convinced that Troy was the third city from the bottom, because there he found the trove of golden ornaments which he believed to be Priam's treasure, but later scholars think he was wrong, and that Priam's city was the third from...