Plan59 :: Vintage Ads :: Mid-Century Modern :: Amado Gonzalez, 1955
 Frozen Foods Mean Finer Living | Crown Zellerbach, 1955 | Amado Gonzalez
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Santiago Calatrava Valls  is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland.
Calatrava’s style has been heralded as bridging the division between structural engineering and architecture.
In this, he continues a tradition of Spanish modernist engineering that includes Félix Candela and Antonio Gaudí. Nonetheless, his style […]

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Rudolf Nureyev is regarded as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century, alongside Maris Liepa, Vaslav Nijinsky, Alexander Godunov and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
In June 1961 while on tour with the Kirov Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev defected at the Le Bourget Airport in Paris. Within a week, he was signed up by the Grand […]

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On June 15, 1985 Rembrandt’s painting Danaë was attacked in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg by a man later judged insane.
He threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife. The entire central part of the composition was turned into a mixture of spots with a conglomerate of splashes and areas […]

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The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d’Este.
It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his […]

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The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show May 21-June 10 1951 was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition during a critical period of art history. It was a gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New […]

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Portrait of Dr. Gachet is one of the most revered paintings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.
There are two authentic versions of this portrait, both executed in June 1890 during the last months of Van Gogh’s life. Both show Doctor Gachet sitting at a table and leaning his head onto his right arm, but they […]

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Kraft Television Theatre was an American TV drama/anthology television program that ran from May 7, 1947-1958.
The show was an example of the Anthology drama, a program format that, unlike an episodic series, created new stories and new characters each week, essentially producing plays for television. It was one of the last of such series to […]

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