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Time tunnel; Huntington Library exhibit journeys through British art from past to present
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The current exhibit at the Huntington Library, Art Galleries, and
Botanical Gardens, "Great British Paintings From American
Collections: Holbein to Hockney," does many things at once, and all
of them well.
Primarily, it is an impressive survey that explores the evolution
of painting in England from 1603 to the present. Without a weak link,
the exhibit represents a succession of masterworks that includes such
popular icons as Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Jonathan Buttall,
better kn...
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In The Grand Manner. Van Dyck at TAMA.
Jerusalem Post
; Angela Levine Jerusalem Post 11-17-1995 "Van Dyck and his Age," one of the most magnificent shows ever mounted at the Tel Aviv Museum, has been skillfully tailored around the fact that only a limited number of museums and collections abroad could be persuaded to lend works to this exhibition. With
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Visual Arts: Death becomes Van Dyck Our images of Stuart England are overwhelmingly those of Anthony Van Dyck. But is there more to his work? By Tom Lubbock But, Tom Lubbock argues, excellence doesn't surprise us, so such artwork crucially fails - with one honourable exception...
The Independent - London
; The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of her toga This is how Sylvia Plath put it, hard and clear, in her last poem, Edge. But corpse-portraiture goes a long way back, and Sir Anthony van Dyck put it
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Art; The Patrician Portraitist; At the National Gallery, Van Dyck's Elegant Visions of the Rich
The Washington Post
; Sir Anthony Van Dyck has been dead 350 years, but his elegance, his hauteur, has yet to be forgiven. He was a wonderful painter-his talent was prodigious, his influence enormous. Yet a certain deep-set disapproval-partially deserved-still clouds his reputation. Good plain folk distrust him
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Van Dyck and his Patrons.(court painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck)(Brief Article)
History Today
; THE DUTCH MASTER, Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1590-1641), court painter to Charles I, was without doubt one of the most shining lights of the Golden Age of the arts in the Low Countries, which was centred on his own native city of Antwerp. The city was home to some of Europe's most brilliant craftsmen,
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A glorious Van Dyck summer
The Boston Globe
; VAN DYCK: 1599-1641 At the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, through Aug. 15, and then at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Sept. 11-Dec. 10. Organized by Christopher Brown VAN DYCK: THE LIGHT OF NATURE At the Rubenshuis, Antwerp, through Aug. 22, then at the British Museum, London,
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