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Carr squired his team to the seaside New Seabury Country Club in Cape Cod, a 7200-yard-long layout of rollicking fairways that looked like a replica of an enchanted Watteau watercolor. The linksters found the landscape somewhat less than sublime as only one player in the 28-man field could break...
...Dales, Spence Fitzgibbons and Glenn Alexander carded a trio of 76s on the scenic seaside links that look like a Watteau watercolor spread on a rather large canvas. Alex Vik and Chip Raffi went around in 82 and George Arnold and Ron Himelman both shot...
Rubens continued to influence European art, especially in France, for 250 years after his death, supplying prototypes to generations of painters from Van Dyck to Fragonard, from Watteau to Delacroix, and even to Cezanne. But there is no way he can seem a "modern" painter now-as Caravaggio...
...what a disappointing treatment of it. Seducer, charlatan, scribbler, dabbler in black magic, Giacomo Casanova was that most magnetic of figures, the legend with nothing lofty about him. Born in a glittering Venice that was rife with disease and intrigue, he was equally at home in scenes of Watteau-like elegance or Hogarthian stench. He roamed the capitals of Europe, living by his wits, his nerve and a nice instinct for when to get out of town. He dreamed up mining schemes and lotteries, supported himself at the card table, survived imprisonment by the Inquisition, taught manners to princes...
...ILLUSTRATED CAT by Jean-Claude Suarès and Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...