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PAKISTAN: MASTER OF THE GAME? BY IKRAM SEHGAL.
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Thirty six years ago almost to the day a good friend, Capt (later Maj Gen) Amin Ahmad Chaudhry (of Bangladesh), told me about Telemachus, a Christian monk who jumped into the ring at the Roman Coliseum to separate two gladiators fighting to the death with swords. The gladiators turned on him and he was run through by their swords. Shocked into silence at the tragedy, the crowd left the Coliseum. Some historians disagree, they say he was set on by the crowd, furious that he should prevent their entertainment they stoned him to death. Whatever the real version, because of his ...
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Biedermeier romanticist - Carl Spitzweg.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...period until the late eighties was Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885) who had, in addition...picture painted about 1851 by Carl Spitzweg. A huge but narrow window shows...the book from between his legs? Carl Spitzweg was born in 1808 in Munich. His...
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19th-century German art: the scarcity of top-quality paintings by famous names is driving collectors to explore new areas of this buoyant market.(COLLECTORS' FOCUS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...view across the plain of Euboea, by Carl Rottmann (1797-1850), an important...Today you can no longer sell a Spitzweg simply because of the name. 30 years...different.' Nonetheless, work by Carl Spitzweg is still consistently selling well...
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Romanticism but no wickedness
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...who is on view at the National, Carl Spitzweg. The painting behind the postcard...their right to be taken seriously. Spitzweg is represented in this exhibition...tavern. The catalogue tells us that Spitzweg was well versed in the art of Daumier...
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Visual Art: A brisk tour of the mysteries of German Romanticism Spirit of an Age National Gallery, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...behind one of the most arresting images in the show, Carl Blechen's Gorge near Amalfi (1831). Although the...interesting to the English eye - an eye cruelly lampooned in Carl Spitzweg's Englander in der Campagna - is Menzel's earlier...
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German print show frames rich
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...collection. The artists von Schleinitz favored -- including Carl Spitzweg and Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, who carried the banner...geographic yearnings of the German public. Later on, Carl Friedrich Lessing and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer concentrated...
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Arts: Dai does `literalism with a twist' PHOTOGRAPHY: Brynamman artist Dai Davies will provide next week's Photo Essay for this newspaper.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...Davies's style is inspired by the anthropomorphic puppeteering used on the TV show Spitting Image, the painters Carl Spitzweg and Millet and the literature of Dylan Thomas. He has been an active member of camera clubs in and around his home...
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High on St. Gallen.(Swiss Cities)
Magazine article from: Swiss News
; ...century Dutch and Flemish paintings, French and German art of the 19th century. Highlights: Paintings by Anton Graft, Carl Spitzweg, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller mad examples of German idealism. * In the evenings, St. Gallen offers musicals and...
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Art note: the provenance of Cranach's 'Cupid complaining to Venus'.(Lucas Cranach)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...coveted a recondite mythology with a Latin inscription. The pictures he personally relished were populist fancies by Carl Spitzweg and other Biedermeier painters. The National Gallery has accepted the claim by Dr Birgit Schwartz, a researcher working...
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Murnau in Murnau
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; ...Literatur und klassischer Kunstgeschichte auf Murnaus Filme nach; in der Gegenberstellung der Filme mit Werken von Carl Spitzweg, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Franz von Stuck, Alfred Kubin und anderen wird der Besucher zum lebendigen Dialog zwischen...
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Daniel Richter
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...from centuries past (the reclined pose of the central figure in Ferbenlaare, 2005, for example, is borrowed from Carl Spitzweg's Der Arme Poet [The Poor Poet], 1839). Clearly reveling in the manipulation of paint, Richter employs a dazzling...
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