The paintings that are normally in the East Gallery — portraits by masters like David, Goya, Reynolds and van Dyck, along with Manet's "Bullfight" — will be moved to other rooms, as was done earlier this year for "Renoir: Impressionism, Fashion and Full Length Painting".
A room of nearly forty portraits, old masters innovatively mixed with contemporary artists, was the setting for four sculptures each by Klinger and by Seffner, who contributed Queen Carola of Saxony, Bach, the retired mayor of Leipzig and His.
The two-part, three-and-a-half-hour-long "American Masters" portrait of Woody Allen that will be broadcast on PBS this Sunday and Monday evenings is so engaging and enlightening that it seems too short.
Tomorrow night, Channel 13 is rebroadcasting "Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds," a two-hour "American Masters" portrait of Rodgers, which had its premiere last fall but got lost in the crush of television coverage after Sept. 11.
Zen monks sought illumination within their own spiritual experience, inspired by the teachings and deeds of their master, and when the monks completed their studies, they received a "diploma" in the form of a portrait of their master, who usually wrote a symbolic poem in the upper part of the picture.
The great formal portraits of Largillière and Rigaud are entirely Baroque in their approach, but in the late informal portraits of these masters a new atmosphere prevails.
In Zen doctrine the portrait of a master was the most important type of painting.
His portrait of the master of novelists is reserved, secretive, enigmatic.
Look at the eyes of people in old masters' portraits, she said, and you will find the artist himself.
It is a portrait of a master at the height of his craft - self-confident, even a bit arrogant.
