Word: michaelangelos
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...dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo and Da Vinci-how to build...
...most of the purchases himself. Mr. John is still enough of a circus man to like his pictures big. He has the largest private collection of Rubens in the world. The pink stucco, palladian-arched John & Mable Ringling Museum contains about 20 galleries and features mountainous bronze reproductions of Michaelangelo's David and the Father Nile and Father Tiber from the Vatican Gardens. It is useless to show him modern pictures, but dealers have dis covered that if they have nothing large, a religious subject is often a temptation. Ten years ago he decided to build a museum...
...Vinci's Mona Lisa smiled down with an inscrutability which seemed no different from that which she bestows upon her admirers in the Louvre. The Blue Boy, Gainsborough's polite urchin, wore his own shiny silk breeches and not a shabby imitation. The cracks across a Michaelangelo fresco were so perfectly reproduced by the lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre...
...19th Century, will be made a full course; Comparative Literature 12 hf., the Types of Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries, will be given as a half-course; Fine Arts 5m hf., Durer, Holbein and Cranach, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5n hf., Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5p hf., Florentine Engraving, will be a new course; Music 2b hf., Model Counterpoint, will be a new course, given by Mr. Wallace Goodrich...
...that the picture now in the Fogg Museum was painted at about the same time. Finally, in 1428, while still at work in the Lateran in Rome, he died. This incompleted work caused Roger van der Weyden to call him the foremost of Italian painters. It is interesting that Michaelangelo, who had no regard for artists generally, said that Gentile was as charming as his name...