Old And Sold Antiques AucitonThousands of articles from the past.The Painting Of Sorolla- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The Sorolla exhibition held by the Hispanic Society in 1910 was a portentous success. Day after day thousands of people bustled each other through the narrow galleries.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/art-estimates-7.shtml Sandro Botticelli- (Found June 29, 2008 ) Giorgio Vasari was until recent times the last critic who prized the exquisite art of Sandro Botticelli. To have been great and so long forgotten is a pledge of sensational rediscovery.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/art-estimates-2.shtml El Greco- (Found June 29, 2008 ) Unlike other revivals, the Greco cult has not been preached in partibus by the middlemen of art; it has grown among the studios of Paris and London, whence it has spread widely.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/art-estimates-3.shtml Goya And His Art- (Found June 29, 2008 ) For violent spirits the painter is Goya, and also for wavering souls who seek consolation in the violence of others. Where other artists profess to be, he really is, sinister.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/art-estimates-4.shtml Rembrandt After Three Centuries- (Found June 29, 2008 ) During his own life, Rembrandt's fame, once considerable, sank into obscurity. For a full century later he was virtually forgotten. His was the fate of all artists at odds with their times.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/art-estimates-5.shtml Vermeer Of Delft- (Found June 29, 2008 ) In his early thirties, Jan Vermeer, of Delft, was conspicuous enough in his native town to be looked up by the French traveller Balthazar de Monconys.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/art-estimates-6.shtml Forty Second Street- (Found June 29, 2008 ) FORTY-SECOND Street and Seventh Avenue . . . Everybody calls it Broadway. The Rialto Theatre. A hanging sign says it is The House Of Hits. .. . But the big line is at the Paramount.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-13.shtml George M. Cohan - Stars And Stripes Forever- (Found June 29, 2008 ) HE's a dancer and a singer and a song writer and a master of slang and an actor and a director and a producer and a playwright and a philanthropist and he's GEORGE M. COHAN.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-12.shtml Jim Tully - The Vagabond King- (Found June 29, 2008 ) THE American Gorki. He found that hoboing was the road to success. JIM TULLY.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-11.shtml Fannie Brice - Say It With Songs- (Found June 29, 2008 ) She was born at the stroke of mid-night on October 29, 1892. Her square monicker is Fannie Borach.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-10.shtml |