1.   Dear Anne Collins, ten years younger than me, taught early Renaissance painting and was just about my only real friend there.

2.   She has become a leading expert on the care and maintenance of Renaissance paintings.

3.   Besides its famed trove of ancient Chinese bronzes, textiles, Renaissance paintings and even a Matisse, it has a glorious covered courtyard adorned with flowering plants.

4.   Birds did appear in Renaissance paintings, all too often simply being fed by St. Francis or contributing to the notion of paradise.

5.   A designer came up with the idea after he saw a Renaissance painting.

6.   Gellatly also collected art from diverse cultures, including Renaissance paintings and jewelry, Chinese paintings and small Greek sculptures.

7.   In one recent instance, the artists helped a group of Boston fifth-graders compose an opera inspired by a Renaissance painting.

8.   Lionized in an era when heroes were preserved like Renaissance paintings, Mantle had demons and flaws.

9.   One senses equally close attention to early Renaissance painting, Indian miniatures and Post-Impressionism, as well as popular illustration.

10.   Projections of galactic swirls and retreating stars -- interrupted by blowups from renaissance paintings and flashing disco lights -- look fairly seedy these days.