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Colorful birds flit around in spacious aviaries. An open-air zoo has monkeys, emus and a lioness with her cubs. Fra grant flowers line the streets. This is the "City of God," eleven miles from Sao Paulo in Brazil. With a school, a hospital and all other things for the material needs of its 1,200-odd inhabitants, it is the headquarters community built by Brazil's liveliest and fastest-growing bank: Banco Brasileiro de Descontos, or Bradesco as it is commonly known...
Randall Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
...Malory's Morte d' Arthur and Aristophanes' Lyslstrata were likely to include elegant versions of whippings and other aberrations; they shocked the Victorian age while also appealing strongly to the lively pornographic and demonic subculture that flourished in London and Paris. One critic called Beardsley the "Fra Angelico of Satanism." A handsome compliment, but slightly exaggerated. He suggested an elegant imp as much as a Satanic friar...
...Tintoretto, Rubens, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto; his problem from the beginning was that he kept leaving off the halos. His taste for reality over illusion distressed his teacher, Academician Thomas Couture, whose 1847 uncostumed orgy, Romans of the Decadence, was the hit of the day. Manet's mother, goddaughter of Jean Baptiste Bernadotte who became King of Sweden, could only explain it thus: "He could paint quite differently, but his friends led him astray...
...Studio. Only five years later, he was dead of tuberculosis. In the interim, he had, as he said, "embellished" or "embroidered" dozens of books, from Malory's Morte a"Arthur to Wilde's Salome, with drawings that earned him Art Critic Roger Fry's epithet, "the Fra Angelico of Satanism...