Word: lorraine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a Pope on the Pamphili side: Innocent X, whose immortal portrait by Velásquez hangs in the picture gallery. The palace also contains a Claude Lorrain landscape, a Fra Filippo Lippi Annunciation, Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt to see and admire. One of the most interesting pictures is a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo of Admiral Andrea,* the greatest of the Dorias, a buccaneer of a man and a hero of history...
...Arab nationalist who was a leader in a 19th century revolt against oppressive taxes. Educated at French lycées in Tunis, the Faculty of Law and School of Political Science in Paris (where he read Victor Hugo and argued about the Rights of Man). Married Mathilde Lorrain, a Frenchwoman he met in Paris. They have one son, Habib Jr., now Tunisia's Ambassador to Italy...
...into the corners and stay quiet. The French recall what happened after Hitler won the Saar from them in another referendum 20 years ago. "German nationalism is looking for its first success in the Saar," wrote Marcel Edmond Naegelen, onetime French governor of Algeria, in Le Républican Lorrain of Metz (the formerly German capital of Lorraine). "If Germany succeeds, she won't stop there, and she will want to succeed elsewhere in the West." At any rate, onlookers waited uncomfortably for a vote that is crucial to the future not only of the 900-square-mile Saar...
...opened the finest survey of Chinese landscape painting ever assembled in America. Its 137 exhibits, borrowed from collections as far distant as Tokyo and Beirut, ranged from the 4th century to the 19th, and included dozens of masterpieces. Though Europe has produced a host of great landscapists, from Claude Lorrain to Paul Cézanne, the West's best could have learned much from the Chinese...
...Corot started off strong. He was blessed with deep feeling for nature, instinctive taste and a large allowance from his family. At 29 he went to Italy and immediately started painting the best landscapes of his career. He outdid even his great French predecessors in Rome-Poussin and Claude Lorrain-by redoing their favorite scenes in a less theatrical manner...