Word: lligat
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week his winning way with paint and reporters was making news once again; a Dali Madonna appeared on the cover of This Week magazine, to illustrate an interview with the new Dali by news-wise Art Critic Emily Genauer. Dali had painted the picture last summer at Port Lligat in Spain, showed it to Pope Pius XII last fall. The Pope, Dali said afterwards, showed, "extraordinary comprehension" of his effort...
...Port Lligat Madonna (see cut) was more traditional than appeared at first glance. The face of the Virgin looked like that of Dali's businesslike wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...
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