Word: madonna
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...work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini shows a poignantly pensive Mary in a rich, blue robe, supporting a standing Infant Christ; the other, called The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, is by the Flemish artist Adriaen Isenbrant, who has painted a weary Madonna with delicately shadowed eyes...
...wanted to be outdone. Shoppers in Chicago, San Francisco, Manhattan and Atlanta saw some of the best-illustrated in color on the opposite page. In Dallas, a $35,000 display of art masterpieces - including 15th century French stone angels, a 16th century Dutch painting of the Madonna and Christ Child-was borrowed from a Manhattan dealer and displayed by A. Harris & Co. After the fine art, shoppers could move on to Neiman-Marcus and see a $25,000 display of cherubs joyfully clanging cymbals and playing games under a pastel...
...golden cross. With stunning blows "from [his] mighty mailed fist" the apparition mowed down the Harvard line like a visitation from Yale. Olga scuttled to safety-and far away, "in the Early Gothic Room of the Cloisters in the northern tip of Manhattan," a stone statue of the Madonna broke into "a slow smile that became almost laughter...
...bigger and better supernatural peal. So Long as Love Remembers is the story of a young Viennese musician named "Tightpants" Halka, who emigrates to the U.S. under the protection of three guardian spirits: a Knight Templar (the one who saves Olga from Harvard), the Cloisters statue of the Madonna and an ex-captain of the S.S. Europa. In America, Tightpants marries Olga, who hails from Wilkes-Barre and is a living replica of the Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow on Broadway, which...
...human soul. Within it is a castle symbolizing the Church Militant. Spiraling up around the sphere are martyrs, saints and dignitaries of the Carmelite order. Borne amidst them on a shaft of light are St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross,* welcomed from above by the Madonna, and Child...