Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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ROGER DAVENPORT Toledo...
Even an arrangement of the paintings by donors could have commented on the taste of particular families. The elaborate Toilet of Venus was donated by Wiliam K. Vanderbilt. Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist, helped the Havemeyer family choose the works of Spanish artists. El Greco's View of Toledo is part of the 1929 Havemeyer bequest: a view of Mary Cassatt's judgment...
WITH SUCH a range of works, from Giotto through the Impressionists to Morris Louis, the exhibit could have spoken about the artists' use of light or of plastic form. El Greco's eerie lighting in View of Toledo compared to Tiepolo's ethereal scene of St. Thecla Praying or compared to Monet's Rouen Cathedral could have emphasized the different handlings of light. A trio of Sassetta (the be-beginnings of perspective), Cezanne his constructive view of nature), and Joseph Stella's Coney Island (an engineering of color) could have stated a development in the ordering of nature...
...Born in Toledo in 1895, the son of a baker, Sanchez attended primary school for only four months; at the age of seven worked as a swineherd to support his family. Later, as a blacksmith's apprentice, working the great bellows and watching metal being hammered into new shapes, he began to dream of creating forms of his own. After his eyesight had been injured by stray sparks from the forge, he joined his family in Madrid and eventually became a baker. Some of the patterns characteristic of Spanish breads can be observed in his sculpture. "All his life...
Self-Reliance. In deciding the case, the U.S. district court in Toledo could hold that the federal statute overrules the state law. But it could also take up the question of whether "female-protective" laws violate the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection to "any person" or its insistence on due process for all. For years, lower courts have upheld separate treatment for women, often citing a 1908 Supreme Court decision that approved different standards for the sexes because of differences "in structure of body, amount of physical strength [and] in self-reliance." In a new case...