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...accuracy of the likeness, deftness of characterization, clarity of form, purity of texture, a glow of the ivory through the delicate colors to enhance the flesh tones. They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they can be seen only through a magnifying glass. With a head painted on so small a scale, the painter was in major trouble if he made even a minor slip. Technically, the art demanded perfection...
...Wonderful World (Barbara Carroll Trio; RCA Victor). A wide-ranging sampler of one of the most imaginative jazz pianists going, with selections ranging from the strutting, heavily accented No Moon at All to a feather-soft brush-over of Rodgers' and Hart's Spring Is Here. The whole is marked by a lively, note-clear touch and a beat that shifts and slides with the mood...
...ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO. What its subject will be Picasso does not hint. But until the final revolver shot sounds, the old master can be depended on to keep the world's eyes focused on the tip of his brush...
...story was old as Grimm and as new as television. It all began when 22-year-old Princess Margaretha, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf, went to London last fall to brush up her English. The princess did not stay with her distant relatives at Buckingham Palace, but boarded at $14 a week with the family of an old friend in Hampstead. She took an unpaid training job as a therapist in a London hospital, traveled to and from work on the underground. Mayfair, which had seen its share of foreign princesses, liked but was not dazzled...
...angel. When it first arrived in the U.S. it was a somewhat different painting. It had apparently left Verrocchio's studio with the kneeling Madonna unfinished. About 40 years later, judging by the style, a minor painter completed it. Examination showed that beneath the visible Madonna was the brush drawing of Verrocchio. The overpaint was removed, revealing Verrocchio's original drawing on white gesso...