Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many research men pick names of Indian tribes, rivers, mountains, and streets or else name them after sweethearts, colleagues, and friends. Usually, however, they just choose the first choose the first two syllables that pop into their head. Then they send the titles to Miss Madonna Louke, curator, who checks through files to find out if such a company actually exists or if the name has been used before on another case. Much amusement was provided recently by a finance case in which the three executives were called Messrs. Pod, Peas and Beans...
...greatest remaining private art hoard in the U.S. (valued up to $50,000,000), the Widener collection was a plum fit to water directorial mouths in any museum in the world. No private collection has matched its set of 14 Rembrandts, few its Raphael Madonna (one of the few genuine Raphaels in the U.S.), its magnificent Titians and Van Dycks...
...Raphael ($4.50), just shipped to the U.S. (the present book of reproductions was published last winter in England). The prejudice which it seeks to correct has existed for many years among critics and criticasters in rebellion against the painter of the famous, widely and often ruinously reproduced Sistine Madonna...
With the centuries his reputation increased, but of his many paintings, fame touched particularly his sweet, overblown Madonnas: The Madonna of the Chair, the Alba Madonna, the Sistine Madonna. The world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...
...Raphaelite Brotherhood," to defy academism by returning for inspiration to the freshness of Botticelli, Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces...