Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's best buy in art books went on sale last week. It is Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art (distributed by Random House; $6.50), an outsized (11-by-15-in., 5-lb.) volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...
...Gamble, the blind, tyrannical spiritualist, was listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...
...rescued Italian art from 45 crates turned over by the Nazis to the Vatican (TIME, July 17). Last week they rubbed their eyes. Missing from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy Mellon standards): from two to three million dollars...
...Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
...evening of Dec. 2, some 30 German planes came low over the town, dropped their first bombs short among the white stucco buildings. Wide-eyed, white-faced men and women clawed at the ruins, and in the town's few shelters fearful crowds wailed: "Madonna, Madonna...