Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scaffolding came down last week, a Crucifixion scene stood revealed (see cut), with angels in attendance, the Madonna at right clad in blue robes edged with gold, two as yet unidentified female saints at left and a portrait, probably of the Bishop donor...
...disappeared from this version. But Moussorgsky's music, drawn mostly from Russian folk songs, is exciting and plentiful. The color, too, is excellent--not like the red and blue "technicolor" of older Russian films. There is another Soviet film on the bill, an explication de peinture called "The Sistine Madonna," which, fortunately, is not long...
...Madonna. Once each year, to emphasize the differences between themselves and the'more effete Romans across the river, the proud Trasteverini pay homage to saints and sinners alike in a fortnight-long Festa de' Noantri-the Festival of Us Others. The celebration begins with a solemn procession in honor of the Madonna del Carmine, for as well as being the brawlingest quarter of Rome, Trastevere boasts the first church ever built in Rome to the glory of the Madonna. But with the procession over, the solemnity is at an end, and for two weeks the alleys of Trastevere...
Prima Donna: The word has, in the mouths of the more thinking members of the musical public, taken on a half-humorous, half-caustic meaning . . . (The child who in an examination paper misspelt the term Prim Madonna was very young...
...paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, once the property of the Benedictine monks of San Sisto, in Piacenza, Italy. When the painting was brought before him, Augustus pushed aside his throne, then in a rare gesture of royal humility cried: "Make room for the great Raphael...