Word: painterly
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...back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. It was the largest one-man show in the U.S. for a living British painter within the century...
...Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy's horse becomes an intricate tattoo symbol of itself, and the European painter's tradition sinks in a jungle of design...
...Then he was put on a starvation diet of "one anchovy and a morsel of bread a day." As a medical student, Keats knew long before this that he was as good as dead anyway. He struggled to make his death easier for Joseph Severn, the kind but ineffectual painter who nursed him. Severn had never seen anyone die. Keats punned "a hundred times a day" and made jokes to divert him. "Severn," he gasped when the final moment came, "lift me up-I am dying." Then he added reassuringly, "Don't be afraid...
...trade with England. The prince's financial adviser, Hippolytus de Berthoz, presumably commissioned both triptychs to honor his saint's name. The heraldry painted on the outer faces of the triptych suggests that it was done some time between 1480 and 1494, almost certainly by a master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, a medieval union that included saddlers and glassworkers...
...upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three panels like a deadly carrousel, binding them together more than the folding altarpiece's hinges. In depicting the Dark Ages torture of a martyr, the unknown painter of Flanders was stepping forward artistically into the awakening Renaissance...