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a great European painter prior to 19th century

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"Yes, the Old Masters often drew badly; they did not care much for truth and exactness in minor details; but after all, in spite of bad drawing, bad perspective, bad proportions, and a choice of subjects which no longer appeal to people as strongly as they did three hundred years ago, there is a SOMETHING about their pictures which is divine--a something which is above and beyond the art of any epoch since--a something which would be the despair of artists but that they never hope or expect to attain it, and therefore do not worry about it."
I found more pleasure in contemplating the Old Masters this time than I did when I was in Europe in former years, but still it was a calm pleasure; there was nothing overheated about it.
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Having already had more than a taste of them in the house of my old master, and having endured them there, I very naturally inferred my ability to endure them elsewhere, and especially at Baltimore; for I had something of the feeling about Baltimore that is expressed in the proverb, that "being hanged in England is preferable to dying a natural death in Ireland." I had the strongest desire to see Baltimore.
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When Salvator Mundi, considered possibly the last remaining masterpiece by legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci to make it to public auction, broke the record for an 'Old Master' painting sold at auction last year, selling for $450.3 million, it broke a 15-year old record held by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens' masterpiece Massacre of the Innocents (1611-12), which sold at Sotheby's London in 2002 for GBP 49.5 million.
Investing in the old masters
Summary: The fashion designer is collaborating with Sotheby's by displaying a collection of Old Master paintings at her boutique, which will then be auctioned
Victoria Beckham blurs line between art and commerce
Victoria, 44, called the display, selected from Sotheby's forthcoming Old Master Paintings sale, a "dream come true".
Now Victoria is a Wannabe painting buff
Summary: Ahead of Sotheby's auction of Rubens' Portrait of a Bearded Venetian Nobleman on 4 July in London, Co-Chairman, Worldwide Old Master Paintings & Drawings speaks to WEALTH Arabia about the asset class' rise
Investing in the old masters
The work of old master includes Ustad Allah Bux, Shakir Ali, AR Chigtai, Sadeqain, Gulgee, Moene, Najmi, Khalid Iqbal, AJ Shemza, Ali Imam and Ghulam Rasul.
250 artworks on display at Alhamra Arts Gallery
"The Legend of Tiger Tim" begins with the quest of a ragamuffin, ferocious, little orphan boy who climbs up to the Wind Mountain Temple to demand that the Old Master train him in fighting because he heard that was what the Old Master was famous for.
The Legend of Tiger Tim
He returns to his former plantation home but his old master is mentally ill and his wife has vanished.
The Abduction of Smith and Smith
An unprecedented level of bids and buys from new markets propelled Sotheby's sale in London of Old Master & British Paintings to GBP 35 mln on Wednesday.
El Greco "Saint Dominic" fetches Au9.2 mln at Sotheby's sale
Imagine starting your working day pulling up a chair opposite an 17th Century Old Master that may not have seen the light of day for years.
Bringing divine bodies back to life; ART Old Masters are being freshened up in readiness for a major summer exhibition in Newcastle. Barbara Hodgson meets conservators at work on masterpieces being brought back into the spotlight
The work, called Gimcrack On Newmarket Heath, With A Trainer, A Stable-lad, And A Jockey, is part of a sale of old master and British paintings.
Stubbs painting expected to fetch pounds 20m at auction
London, Jan 28 (ANI): A 450-year-old painting by Renaissance master Titian fetched a record 16.9 million dollars on Thursday at a Sotheby's sale of Old Master works in New York.
450-year-old Titian painting sells for record $16.9m at NY auction
Jean Leon Gerome's "Master of the Hounds" is expected to fetch $700,000 to $1 million Wednesday, during Christie's auction of Old Master
Rethinking of Orientalist art sees resurgence in the market
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