Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Painters of the past did their masterpieces in oil from 32 to 36. Raphael did the Sistine Madonna at 35 and died at 37. Yet Da Vinci worked on The Last Supper in his 40s. And the durable Michelangelo, who lived to be 89, is best remembered for his The Last Judgment, done...
...dominant center position stands a roughly molded, magnificent bronze by Pablo Picasso, Shepherd Holding a Lamb, which proves that Picasso can be a lot more forceful in 3-D than in some of his two-dimensional painted abstractions. There is also Jacob Epstein's majestic, reposeful Madonna and Child, an anguished Horse by Italy's Marino Marini, and a skeletal abstraction, Double Standing Figure, by Britain's Henry Moore. Among the sculpture are evergreens, geraniums and winter jasmine...
...never fully appreciated in the U.S. during his lifetime. The Ingres Museum in his native Montauban has combed its collection of 4,000 paintings and drawings, sent over 53 of the master's finest: 16 religious scenes, landscapes and portraits, 37 delicate drawings of prancing nude dancers, a Madonna-like head, a ragged Roman beggar, a man playing cards. All show Ingres' love of classic line and precise detail. One of his mannered best: a pencil drawing, The Forestier Family, in which Ingres pays homage to young Julie Forestier, whom he was engaged to marry but later deserted...
...newly aware of nuclear physics. But why the rhinoceros horns? Most important, says Catholic Dali. "The rhinoceros horn embodies a mystic feeling similar to that of bullfighting. The bull is a Spanish god who sacrifices himself. Bullfighters are his priests. " Says Dali, who plans to show his Madonna in Manhattan this Christmas season: "I have reached the maximum of expression and neo-mysticism...