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...In “Geometric Proportions of the Farnese Hercules”, an unknown artist investigates classical manipulations of cubes, triangles, circles, to create the perfect male body — the sheet, proto-Cubist, comes from...
...Ruben Vardanyan, a billionaire with close ties to Moscow, who moved to Nagorno-Karabakh last year and briefly became its first minister, was arrested on Wednesday by Azerbaijan as he made his way through...
...What she will do next is unknown. But it seems safe to assume that her recent experience will find its way into a future film script. raphael.abraham@ft.com...
...Rubens’ pupil Van Dyck brought the movement’s bravura dazzle, without its spiritual substance, to the court of Charles I....
...Portraits — by known and unknown sitters and artists — proved in demand at this season’s Old Master auctions in London....
...Rubens’ portraits, for example, can border on caricature, bursting as they do with the artist’s humour and painterly brio....
...“Constable: The Making Of A Master” will also reveal a previously unknown oil sketch, which is believed to date from 1821, of a tree-lined clearing with a structure thought to be a kiln....
...George Gordon, Sotheby’s co-chairman of Old Master paintings and drawings, was the man behind the spectacular rediscovery of Rubens’ “Massacre of the Innocents”, which achieved £49.5m at the auction house...
...Nico Van Hout, curator of the Rubens and His Legacy exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, says Rubens owned several paintings by his assistant Anthony van Dyck, and several by Adriaen Brouwer...
...But Rubens certainly was influenced by Titian, as the computer argued, making many copies of his works. I would argue that the Rutgers team began by asking the wrong question....
...Vermeer was then relatively unknown; his rediscovery by French art critics in Proust’s circle was just beginning, and although “View of Delft” was in the collection, the Mauritshuis destination picture through...
...People feel relaxed about walking into a gallery, whether they are a known client, someone else’s client or a complete unknown....
...Rubens had a factory of assistants painting for him, and the great Italian Renaissance studios were communal endeavours....
...Sir, If the National Gallery’s magnificent painting of Samson and Delilah is not by Rubens (Letters, July 10), will the doubters please tell us what previously unknown genius of the early 16th century did...
...There are portraits of unknown young men by Frans Hals and Veronese who stand before us as physically alive, penetrating and tremulous with thought as any creations by these artists....
...An unknown cast acts with dazzling conviction. Östlund films in longish takes, alternating close-in and far-off shots like a master golfer varying viewpoints as he sizes up each putt....
...Furthermore, it is just one jewel in a collection of Old Master paintings that has been open to the public since 1765 yet is still unknown to all but connoisseurs....
...Ruben Vardanyan is president of Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo....
...Perhaps the greatest artist’s collection, though, was that amassed by Peter Paul Rubens....
...Another unknown is whether the government will have the stomach to stand by and watch Varig go under in the event that no buyer emerges....
..., Rubens: From Italy to Antwerp 1600-1616 (October 26-January 15 2006)....
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