However his biggest role of the period, and perhaps of his career, was as Herring (a thinly veiled portrait of Nazi war minister Hermann Göring) in Chaplin's Third Reich satire "The Great Dictator." After transitioning to TV in the 1950s, Gilbert retired from performing in 1962. ...
The Rolling Stones' nasty, bluesy romp paints a perfect portrait of where they were in 1971. Bottom line: on top of the world and able to do anything they damn well pleased, including recording a song about a forced interracial relationship between a slave owner and one of his slaves. Bad...
The following 4 famous paintings — from Jan van Eyck's portrait to Pablo Picasso's masterpiece — have stood the test of time.The Amolfini PortraitJan van Eyck’s Amolfini Portrait, an oil painting on wood produced in 1434, in which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind...
Over the years, "Bang a Gong (Get It On)' has become a cornerstone and influential rock number of the '70s. Heart, "Barracuda" (1977) Portrait Heart, "Barracuda" (1977) That rolling riff is the force behind one of Heart's most timeless songs, but the sting doesn't stop there. ...
The Peales were a famous family of American artists.Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution.He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington.His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian...
Phaidon also mentions “Another portrait of Wyatt by Holbein is also lost. From it derive the small circular woodcut which appeared in Leland’s Naeniae in mortem ?Thomae Viati, 1542, and two circular paintings, in reverse to the woodcut, in the Bodleian Library and National Portrait Gallery...