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...Peter Paul Rubens, one of the five grand masters of 17th century painting-the others, by general consent, being Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Poussin-was born 400 years ago this summer, on June 28, 1577. This birthday has raised memorial exhibitions all over Europe. No anniversary of a comparably great figure could launch so many shows, because Rubens was so prolific. A thousand or so paintings, more than 2,000 drawings, sown from Leningrad to Washington: Rubens was the grand inseminator of the Baroque, a monster of controlled fecundity, erudition and discipline. The biggest Rubens show, the text to which...
Glazunov is no Soviet Velasquez, but he has certainly prospered. He moved from the garret he had long occupied into a lavish downtown Moscow apartment, and was given an immense studio. So why did he cause such a fuss? Many suspect that Glazunov's legendary ego may have been involved. Not so, says Glazunov. The affair was a matter of principle. Says he: "This is my artistic declaration, and I can't open the exhibition without...
...very notion of "creativity" seems, in Velasquez's presence, a sentimental impertinence. He was unquestionably the deepest painter of matter who ever lived...
...most gifted of Caravaggio's followers and the best artist in 17th century Naples. His portrait of Magdalena Ventura, the bearded lady of the Abruzzi, exposing one cyclopean breast as her worn husband looks on, belongs to the same Spanish tradition of dispassionate curiosity about freaks as Velasquez's court dwarfs and idiots...
...examiners found on Ingres' Odalisque en Grisaille a monogram enclosed in a circle, which Ingres' student Armand Cambon used to sign his works. X rays made by Hubert von Sonnenburg, the museum's restorer, revealed that there was no underpainting or preliminary sketches in the Velasquez portrait of Philip IV, so Met experts concluded it was probably a copy, since most great artists sketch in some tentative ideas before they produce the completed work...