Word: velasquez
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...books lack the refinement of older civilizations, but it is because the people are immature and it is impossible to demand intellectual penetration as yet. We are older than the North Americans, much older. . . . [But] culture comes after wealth. . . . Although there is no Goethe, no Shakespeare, no Kant, no Velasquez on the American scene, thousands of people are working hard, trying...
...hair, was sorry to be caught, but said she was not a bit sorry to stop copying Utrillo. The 63-year-old modern's cool, empty streets thrilled her not at all, said Zizi. It would be hard to forge the art of her favorites, Da Vinci and Velasquez, she said, "but my Utrillos are better painted than the master...
...Austrian royal family's collection. The famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn't 15 of his officers rate free tuition at an Austrian university...
...name of the German state"-as, for example, the Rothschild collection in Paris -Goring preferred more formal methods, with at least a fiction of legality. Göring did get some fine things from the Rothschild collection, such as a portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa by Velasquez, but Hofer insisted that everything taken from the Rothschild collection (which he said was "collected") was later appraised by French experts and a price paid to the French state-which, of course, was considerably in debt to Germany...
During the war years no gilt-edged Old Masters of the Andrew Mellon-J. P. Morgan class have changed hands at auction. Recent sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...