Some elegant portraits by Van Dyck, whom Rubens considered his best pupil, are also on hand; an early self-portrait, in which Van Dyck is dressed and posed as nobly as any of his subjects, is a splendid study in how to present yourself to the right people.
Reading the church building itself as a text, she renders its language of marble and mosaic into a splendid narrative whose subject is how an architectural space can both express and recall epiphany.
On Jews in medicine as well — I hear they have a large and splendid collection on the subject.
But he seems to exalt in a splendid ignorance of the subject.
His works usually are huge, vastly peopled canvases depicting allegorical, biblical, or historical subjects in splendid colour and set in a framework of classicizing Renaissance architecture.
Nine hundred years ago, at a site on a high plateau north of the Limpopo River called Great Zimbabwe, Shona kings built stone palaces where they lived in splendid isolation from their subjects, with absolute authority over their means to sustain life — cattle herds, land, and the gold that came out of the earth.
A mouthwatering curiosity is what the viewer takes away from Edward Hopper's painting "The Sheridan Theatre" (1937), the subject of a splendid little exhibition at the Newark Museum.
"Splendid Grand Central Terminal" is the subject of a tour on Sunday at 1 15 p.m., meeting on the northeast corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
She never really broke new ground with the clothes that bore her formidable label, but it's appropriate that her 30-year reign as e pioneering spirit of 7th Avenue ready-to-wear is the subject of a splendid retrospective at the museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology ("Hattie Carnegie: American Style Defined," through April 27th).
Painting in oils on board, he produced images that Hogarth would have commended as worthy of being displayed as pub signs: paintings with conventionally romantic titles (Battlements, View of the Ruins, Bend in the Road) displaying a taste for cutting the crap and appreciating, besides Gris - the subject of a splendid manifesto-type portrait in 1963 - the Tintin comic strips.
