Word: glows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made them were revered, but most of their names are forgotten. The art reached its highest level in France, and France's earliest known fragment is a "Head of Christ" (opposite) made in the mid-11th century for a church at Wissembourg in Alsace. The turquoise and ruby glow of its colors, the economy of its drawing, and the sorrowing intensity of its expression make the little medallion (reproduced at close to full size) a priceless masterpiece. It had an honored place last week in one of the summer's most important exhibitions: a 63-item survey...
...laughs even in the face of tragedy. But the sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them would be indecent...
Risks and Gain. Whether Rab Butler's budget results in a durable coronation-year glow or a mere one-day spark depends largely on a gamble he is deliberately taking. He wants tax savings plowed back into business, not distributed as profits...
...show did include 15 religious paintings and portraits known to be from Antonello's own hand, plus ten more pictures hopefully attributed to him, and 100 by his Sicilian contemporaries and followers. The Antonellos were enough to demonstrate that he had brought a rich new glow to Renaissance painting...
...soft glow, the dead-black background of the murals seems to recede. Saturn with its rings stands out almost in three dimensions, clear and cold and quiet. The waving streamers of the aurora shimmer in a delicate pastel curtain. Flamelike solar prominences erupt from the surface of the sun with more clarity than in the original coronagraph pictures. Nothing seems to stand still: the murals vibrate with energy...