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The Home Is a Family Affair THE STTXPAT STAR, •WASHINGTON', P. C, MAT 0. lf)2S-PART 2. 5 Venus. When Michelangelo saw Danae and the boy began his career by cover- early age of 60. Tintoretto saw the only In his love of color—but he had a duced more m literature and even In ROLL IS KEPT. Stalin and His Aides Are Sitting he said. "Only Titian deserves the ing with pictures the walls of his light before and after him; and Titian, 1' penchant for painting himself and his art, had she not been herself so sur- RAVEN When 111 of Ij name of painter.” Philip father’s shop. He was apprenticed to who was 51 when Veronese came, lived friends into the passing fair; it is a fit city for an artist | Spain was told that the fire had de- Titian, but, for reasons unknown to his- till the younger man was 46; one day, most respectable com- for pany; once he was | to work In, except that It lures one out Birds Listed and Cared at i Atop Smoldering Bolshevist Volcano stroyed part of the great Prado Mu- tory the boy returned after 15 days, him in the Piazza San Marco, Imprisoned In a j meeting monastery for presuming to include of art into life; one feels there, more ' scum at Madrid, his first question was. resolved to study alone; yet he placed Titian embraced him as a parting ex- anywhere, the motto, Prlmum Tower of London. ‘Antiope* portraits of himself, and other living ; than old i I “is Titian's saved?" "Yes," over his bottega this inscription, as the pression of his sense that a new gen- vivere—First let us live. For life j < Continued from Page) him. "That is a comfort,” persons, among the followers of Christ. ' est LONDON —A pair of baby ravens, First j munists, Stalin's policy is one of con- they told modest goal of his desire: II disegno eration had come, and that this man Entertained for few days the Villa Ls better than art; fairer than Correggio I ; ! King, "the rest could be re- Michelangelo a at male female, have arrived at the tinued moderation. There are to be said the di cd 11 colorita di Tiaiano would replace him in the affection of Pisani, at Este, he picture of is the sunshine, and more beautiful j and ®uch. for manufactured as he no startling Innovations in ! placed." —"The drawing of Michelangelo and his countrymen. painted a [ articles ¦ thq internal! “The Family of Darius at the Feet of ; than Giorgione is the sea. Tower of London and were entered on did prior to the World War. Even at conduct of affairs. Existing institu- ! The old master painted Venus again the coloring of Titian." Paolo had grown up in Verona, in the lions will be with and again; the "Venus” of the Uffizi Alexander.’’ and left it there as his re- 1 Yet when her earthly beauty has I the books with due solemnity. such exorbitant prices these articles ; strengthened to cope He was overjoyed when he ' house of his father, Gabriele Caliari, a for courtesy hospitality gone, j are extremely irregularities The co-op- Gallery at Florence, rivaling Giorgione Is. received' turn the and and time has taken from her even When new ravens arrive to join the scarce. It was shown peasant jj a commission to paint four pictures for sculptor; but when he came of age he | he had enjoyed; in time the pic- | palaces ; recently that 70 i will be "livened and the "Venus with the Lute Player.” ! our jthe glory of her cathedrals and famous flock they officially "sworn per cent of all the . eratiwes up” the School of St. Mark, at Venice; one migrated to Venice as a field more hos- ture has been sold for $65,000. The streams, will re- ! i are products buy- the Farnese "Venus," pitable | mirrored in her history way manufactured hi the Soviet made more attractive to the rural In Dresden: at of these— “St. Mark Freeing the Slave” to art. There he entered into a Art Museum of New' York has one of ! for her wealth j in” much the same as an ord- Union The experiments The Hague; the "Toilette of Venus," in offered for member her fondly, not human recruit. particulars are consumed m the cities and ers. m collectivist or —was so successful that he was competition painting the ceiling if his finest works, “Mars and Venus power, her and victories, not inary Full only 30 per rent > communal farming, going on in vari- the Alte at Munich; the the Library of and wars regarding the time of arrival and their go to the 90.000.000 Pinakothek. —and in his innocence accepted—prac- St. Mark, and his work Bound by Cupid”; Venus Is an alluring for the Doges that for a thousand years peasants. ous parts of the country, will receive "Venus and Adonis" of the National engagement for life, to paint was so excellent that his competi- } sex are noted on an enlistment sheet, tically an own figure and Mars makes no objection. 1 made her mistress of the Medlterra- The reasons for this disproportion , government aid and wili be otherwise Gallery; at Madrid two voluptuous three pictures yearly for the School tors unanimously voted him victor. For a Here for last is anJ rations are provided for them dally. for . bolstered up. pictures of Venus amusing herself with of time he the time the perfection ! nean, but for the painters who caught and the sluggish tempo of all manu- iof San Rucco. at the sum 100 went back to Verona, and paint- of the Venetian school. her passing greatness, and gave it to musicians, and a great canvas detailing year. midst there the “Banquet facturing are well known—old equip- Drastic Measures Due. ducats ($250) a In the ed in the House of ! all natioas and all time in these pic- ment and poor technique in the fac- the "Feast of Venus ." In the “Baccha- of this labor he found time to paint Levi"; and thence to Rome, to take les- Progress of Painting. Drastic measures will applied Prado) jolly j tures of which we have spoken so hur- tories; high overhead expenses and be to i nale" < also in the there is a enormous pictures for the Palace of the sons from the Florentine masters there. the technique of paint? r - See. now, how ! riedlv. in these marvels of life and colo BALDNESS eradicate one Soviet evil bureaucracy, and Franz Hals, defeettrr distribution; high wages and , j| spirit of Rubens and a Doges, like the "Descent from the When he returned to Venice he at once ing progressed since Giotto; how ¦ government " has j of which we have at least learned the ¦A CAN BE AVOIDED wasteful use of raw materials. Finally, officials, bank employes.! little more; love loosens all bonds and Cross” and "Paradise The last is 74 produced a masterpiece—“ Venice En- factory superintendents—in brief,' the replacement of frescoes with oil h3S j nam'\s, and which some day, perhaps, KAWith Larky lifer, just like ilm the most crucial of all j the cup which the fairest of the women feet long and 30 feet wide: yet when throned.” Still more renowned is “The wuptkmi reason all—want of sorts of civil service personnel will be produced greater softness of surface, j we shall be blessed enough to see, can be corrected capital. ! holds up in her hand bears this philoso- the authorities sent payment for it he Marriage of Cana": 130 figures, each greater depth perspective, greater H Wbytr-Fax. Both sold placed under of 1!>”S > *£7 Unless. Trotsky warns, the Soviet’s a strict disciplinary i j phical inscription; "Who drinks without returned part of the sum, saying that ;j studied and painted as if it were an and fullness of color. Every- IConvrisht. W under Money-Back Guar- richness j *-- *"'** regime - experiments in socialism can made Slovenliness of every kind will ' drinking again knows not what drink he had not expected so much. individual portrait; indeed, many of thing is finer, except that some- n 1 r ifti Barbers or druea->ra lie be made a social crime Grafting, | now- j pay they !mg is." Finally, the two aspects of Like Titian. Tintoretto lived to a them were representations of actual thing nobility virility ; J^^jLfCKlMriGEB to will fail. It is the basic whether in money, time or materials, of the and of the Is Fish. law of history,” he says, “that in the \ ! Titian's taste appear together in his great age. and survived many of his personages—Titian, Queen Mary of Eng- early age is lost in the luxury and City Raising in stent ion to complaints and an air ! “Sacred and Pro- children. died land, Colonna, end that order of society prevails which I most famous picture. When his daughter the Vittoria the Sultan of splendor of the new Art begins with NORWALK. Ohio—Norwalk has gone of superiority toward the public will ] fane Love"; every one knows how the broken-hearted father her por- Turkey. Tintoretto and Veronese fish. Rain- assures to mankind a higher standard entail, only painted him- masculine and ends with the feminine, into the business of raising not dismissal from the job. i ! Borgliese Gallery, at Rome, refused trait as she lay dead him. so self. It might have been the work of propagated and put in of existence.” So far, he finds. "cap- bus prison before like the gamut of a civilization; life be- bow trout are BumsteadsWormSyrup italism is sentences.
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