Word: correggio
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Leda (Newking),a lady who has been painted by Paul Veronese, Correggio and Michael Angelo, bends in heroic contemplation of a swan as sturdy as a duck...
Brilliantly, beneath the flamboyant ceiling-piece of the banquet hall, on the terrace under the tremoloing stars, the company conversed. They spoke of man's relationship to the Absolute, of the art of Correggio, contraception, the difference between amour and amore, hypocrisy (it gangrenes gallantry), religion, cats. Little by little, they split off into pairs, these beautiful women, these men of genius. Irene became engaged to Hovenden despite his lack of dental fricatives; Calamy gave himself to Miss Thriplow and made her regret it; Mrs. Aldwinkle, rebuffed by Chelifer, went off to Monte Carlo...
Raphael's Crucifixion, a Titian Madonna and Child, and paintings by Gentile Bellini, Fra Bartolommeo, Correggio, Palma (Il Vecchio) and Tintoretto were bequeathed to the National Gallery, London, in the collection of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond, on the death of his widow. The Raphael was painted when the artist was only 16, and is worth...
...lent for the exhibition by Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee. The drawings include the work of some of the greatest masters of the Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, and German schools. Among them there are very fine and delicate pencil drawings by lugres, a drawing in red chalk by Correggio, wonderful pen drawings by Rembrandt, wash drawings by Bernini and Giulio Romano, and drawings in color by Rubens and Holbein...
Among the recent additions to the collection of paintings of the Fogg Art Museum is a "Study of a Head" by Correggio. The painting, representing the head of a young boy, is the gift of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, and is supposed to be a study for the head of Sant 'Uario, patron saint of the city of Parma, one of the figures in the fresco of the dome of Parma Cathedral. Only a few changes have been made in the finished painting...