Word: angelicizing
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Having made no headway with the angelic Miss Blair (she allowed him to press his hand upon her waist during a performance of Othello, but that was all), he consoled himself with a young Irish lady just 16-"formed like a Grecian nymph . . . her father with an estate of ?1...
The most versatile painting family in Italian history was the Carracci of 16th century Bologna, two brothers and a cousin who burst on the post-Renaissance scene as tireless and talented jacks-of-all-styles. Singly or together, they could turn out madonnas with Raphael's angelic sweetness, turbulent...
Sure that being guardian angel to a nun "is a lot more fun/in the race to the state of grace" because all nuns do is pray all day, the angel agrees to change places with her new charge, Sister Angelica, to show her how simple a nun's life...
Your Fra Angelico-a bright miniature, somewhat lacking in composition and perspective. Have your writer read the tribute Pius XII paid the angelic Fra back in April. Angelico was more than a luminous knothole on the renaissance or a polychrome peephole on the Gospel. He was a window on Heaven...
The one painter who more than any other possessed an artist's radiant vision of the Nativity, as valid in its harmony and joyous quietude for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as it is today, was a Dominican priest who died in Rome just 500 years ago this...