Word: tintoretto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone. The Russians had shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...
...like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings were works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Goya, Rubens and El Greco. But Dallas Museum Director Jerry Bywaters counted on a lesser masterpiece to reach the heart of Texas: Rosa Bonheur's sun-spangled Horse Fair, whose picturebook realism and 8-by-16-ft. grandeur make it a crowd favorite in Manhattan...
Allston, the son of an aristocratic South Carolina family, first went to Boston as a student at Harvard, was infected with Boston's quickening interest in Europe's classical culture. He visited Italy and France, studied the immense compositions of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto. In 1811, he settled in England to paint like them. When he returned to Boston seven years later, his fame seemed secure...
...cluttered Rome studio to wait out modern art. Nowadays the aging (58) Italian master blushes at the melancholy fantasies-full of staring colonnades, long black five-o'clock shadows, twisted manikins-which made him famous. He had since passed through a Renoir period, a Titian-Tintoretto period and into a Salvator Rosa period...
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...