Word: medallioned
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...whose paintings disclose a more strictly developed taste. They are suffused with references to Balthus' two main sources, Courbet (whose stolid, gawky children are the great-grandmothers of Balthus' adolescents) and the early Italian Renaissance The profiles of his girls have the slightly awkward purity of quattrocento medallion portraits. Nude in Profile, 1977, displays her pubescent body with the columnar grace of a figure by Piero della Francesca; light flows around the shallow curve of the wall and invests her outline with a hushed archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous...
...great and good American is dead, let us not obscure him by the flowers, but walk up and look at that fine medallion, all torn by sorrow that perhaps we are not equipped to understand. Ring made no enemies, because he was kind, and to millions he gave release and delight...
...trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon she is being forced to strip in front of the assembled baddies, though she could not possibly conceal the object they seek -a large medallion-on her pretty person. A little later they invade her room dressed in voodoo getups, smear her body with blood and seem to do something rather peculiar with a chicken claw they're carrying. The sadism is excessive for this context, and the employment of blacks in the roles...
...Tokyo to participate in conferences on nuclear armaments and nuclear power. He plans to return to his home in Woods Hole, Mass., to write on scientific topics and maintain his political activities. Even though he never fit the institutional mold and eschewed gray flannels for a turtleneck sweater and medallion, Wald has left an indelible mark upon Harvard. He is at times "a pain in the neck to the administration," as one admirer says, but he is still universally respected in spite or because of his politics...
...paintings that survive are as complete in their illusion as this one. One of them is a portrait of Edward VI, painted in 1546 -under Holbein's influence-by an English artist, William Scrots. Seen from a peephole in the edge of the frame, it turns into a medallion, with the same apparitional quality as the skull...