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...person who has returned home. What I gained from my visit was not a memory of disaster but a feeling of gratitude. The laughter and optimism reflected in the smiles of the people I met showed that no matter how much was lost, they are grateful to be alive. Nain Martinez Jr. Berkeley, California...
Brown readily allows that the Lazarus account is a dramatic embellishment by John of an event that is nonetheless in some way historical. In the Gospels there are other instances of Jesus raising a dead person (the son of the widow of Nain in Luke), and Brown suggests that John may have transposed a similar event to the end of Christ's ministry to symbolize in one act the audacity of his miracles...
Pastry Cook's Path. One name boldly signed to the Splendid Century is Le Nain. It belonged to three famous brothers of Laon, who, confusingly, often worked together on the same canvas and rarely signed their first names to anything. But scholars have gone far in separating the three. Antoine, according to contemporary accounts, "excelled in miniatures and portraits in small." The peasant paintings of Louis, the most talented of the three, were a happy blend of Dutch naturalism and Roman classicism. Mathieu, the most successful, became master painter to the city of Paris, assumed the title of Seigneur...
...Nain contemporary, the onetime pastry cook Claude Lorrain, was a classicist, but he followed a far different path than Poussin took. He was less interested in ideas or subject matter than in the wonders that nature poured out all around him. He was the first Frenchman to paint similar scenes at different times of day, the first to record the fickle moods of light. His Seaport is as well ordered as a classical painting should be, but there is a quiet sadness about the yellow daylight and a heavy loneliness about the dancing...
XIII. What cast his work into the shadow was the rule of King Louis XIV, who favored the glorifying allegories and myths of the classic style, abhorred naturalism and humanism. Shown a work by one of La Tour's fellow realists, Louis le Nain, the Sun King snorted: "Take those maggots away from...