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...caring to imitate them, for Turner's drive was toward an art of the future-impressionism-not toward the past. But each new view he had of the world struck Turner as a challenge; he tackled and translated into paint everything from Alpine peaks and torrents down to Venetian gondolas and delicately tinted palaces. Turner studied the shimmering hugeness of the sea more closely than any previous painter. Once during a Channel crossing in a blizzard he had himself lashed to the mast, the better to observe the storm...
...Cleveland Museum is 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...
Cervantes soon found himself well started along the road to military adventure. On Oct. 7, 1571, Private Cervantes was aboard a warship in the Spanish and Venetian fleet that sailed into the Gulf of Lepanto and closed with the Ottoman fleet bent on the destruction of Christian power in the Mediterranean. A high fever pinned the gaunt, red-bearded young man to his bunk, but when he heard the battle raging, he threw himself into the fight anyhow...
...cluster of pavilions beside a Venetian lagoon, they had their best chance of finding it. There the Venice biennial, the world's oldest, biggest and best-known international art show, had assembled a record exhibition of 4,000 art works from a record 22 nations, to celebrate its silver anniversary...
Composed of interlocking planes of soft, clear color, Afro's abstractions look rather like shattered Venetian glass seen through a watery film. His colors are very much his own, but his compositions are not; when reproduced in black & white they appear to rest solidly on the cubist experiments of Braque and Picasso. Afro's close harmonies of color and texture also reflect his long apprenticeship as a decorative artist. His delicate yet decisive lines and contrapuntal arrangement of shapes show a draftsmanship that comes only from long study...