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It doesn't interest me," Henri Cartier-Bresson says of photography. "It never has. The only thing that has ever been important is drawing." He is sitting at the living-room window of his fifth-floor Paris apartment, looking out over the Tuileries Gardens. It's almost exactly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eternity in an Instant | 4/27/2003 | See Source »

Not all historians agree that the future King Henry II of France married Italy's Catherine de Médicis for her ice cream recipes in 1533. Some say he liked her pasta more. In any case, the Italians lost a daughter but not a dish. They have remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gelato by the Superscoopful | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

French and Italian cuisines "have been intertwined since the young French queen-to-be Catherine de Médicis coached from Italy to France in 1533 with a retinue of chefs and their recipes, plus forks, then unknown to the Gauls. The old established Italian cuisine is still among the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An International Bill of Fare | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Sir Peter Paul Rubens, one of the five grand masters of 17th century painting-the others, by general consent, being Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Poussin-was born 400 years ago this summer, on June 28, 1577. This birthday has raised memorial exhibitions all over Europe. No anniversary of a comparably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rubens: 'Fed upon Roses' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Joci debiles dicis? Jocos carpere vel noli nostros, vel tuos proprios ede recteque redde*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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