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Where Eagles Try to Dare.(efforts to save the Philippine eagle )(Brief Article)
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March 1, 1999|
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On just four islands of the Philippines a rare raptor struggles.
The Philippine Archipelago hosts one of the world's richest faunas--especially when it comes to birds. In a country with a burgeoning human population and masses of rural poor, the Philippine eagle is the wildlife equivalent of the downtrodden, as good as homeless and barely eking out a living.
The species never lived on more than a handful of the more than 7,000 Philippine islands. Today it survives only in the forests of Mindanao, Luzon, Samar, and Leyte. In 1910 there were 1,200 eagles in ...
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SMALL WONDERS; At the National Gallery, Some Tiny Dutch Treats
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Adriaen Brouwer's "Youth Making a Face" is 360 years...pretensions, but close enough. Last year, Brouwer's little oil-on-warped-wood panel...scene is no million-dollar picture. Brouwer is too little known, and his painting...
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Haarlem genre painting: Dennis P. Weller visits an exhibition focussing on the artistry of Frans Hals and his contemporaries.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...appear alongside low-life scenes executed by the Fleming Adriaen Brouwer during his activity in Haarlem. With the exception of...necessitated the inclusion of pictures by the low genre painters Adriaen and Isack van Ostade to bridge the gap. With one or...
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Respectable, responsible muse ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...a postcard. The Flemish artist Adriaen Brouwer painted it around 1635. He liked discomfiting the smug. Brouwer (1605/1606-1638) was famously...man, the suit deserved to eat. Brouwer was born in Haarlem. He also worked...
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Delight and Instruct
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly
; ...painter Judith Leyster, he was one of the best genre painters of his day, specializing, like his contemporaries Adriaen Brouwer and Adriaen van Ostade, in scenes of peasant life. The Molenaer exhibition in Raleigh is the first such show ever dedicated...
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Out of the shadows: far from playing second fiddle to Rembrandt, Jan Lievens was a virtuoso innovator in his own right throughout his long career, as an exhibition in Washington demonstrates.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Lievens can be seen most clearly in his 1644 portrait of Adriaen Trip, the 22-year-old scion of a prominent Amsterdam...magpie. While living in Antwerp, Lievens befriended Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers and set about producing low-life...
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ARTS GUIDE
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Rotterdam painter Willem Buytewech and ends with Frans van Mieris. Other important artists in the show include Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade, Gerrit Dou, Gerard Ter Borch, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu and Vermeer. The exhibition...
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Drama in Details Pieter de Hooch, a Dutch Master Who Elevated the Ordinary
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...when his first pictures, inspired by tavern scenes of Adriaen Brouwer or his Rotterdam followers, could have sunk to the level of genre painting. Nothing is further removed from Brouwer's penchant for the picturesquely satirical than De...
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National Gallery of Art Announces Catalogue on Seventeenth Century
Newspaper article from: Italian Voice, The
; ...Dutch and Flemish galleries on the main floor of the West Buildings. The new galleries open with four installations: Adriaen Brouwer: Youth Making a Face, Paintings on Copper, Vermeer and His Contemporaries, and Dutch and Flemish Still-Life...
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Rembrandt's rival; A Dutch master re-emerges at the National Gallery of Art.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...create large-scale religious paintings for the Jesuits. He befriended genre and still-life painters, including Adriaen Brouwer, whose death from the plague in 1638 may have inspired Lievens to compose two of his most unusual paintings. In...
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