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...Complete Work of Raphael. 649 pages. Reynal & Company. $45. The year's blockbuster (a 12-lb. book) shows and tells everything about the painter, architect and sonneteer who personifies the High Renaissance search for ideal beauty and harmony. Always overshadowed by the matchless genius and crotchety vitality of Michelangelo, Raphael in this volume exhibits unexpected depths of power and humanity...
...artist today, either black or white, could possibly paint or envision the tender, natural black and white spirits as Michelangelo did on the Sistine Ceiling-the twin inspirations of the prophetess Cumaea. But along with Michelangelo, today's artists might ponder the thought of Plotinus, the sooty, stooped and radiant philosopher who argued that dark and light together shape the world...
...poverty denied him the class privilege of a university education, it gave him great freedom of mind. He could be depended upon to rush in where pedants feared to tread. At the drop of a bourgeois top hat, he would discourse on Moses or municipal drains, on Marx or Michelangelo. Browbeating the Church of England for paganism or instructing mothers on how they should train children-it was all one to Shaw...
...Jean-Luc Godard makes a film, the title is virtually irrelevant. Satyricon is the official name of a forthcoming fantasy about the sexual excesses of ancient Rome, but the knowing audience may be attracted more by the movie's unofficial title: "The New Fellini." Such Italian directors as Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica are also, in effect, the titles of their films, as are Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman and celebrated French Film Makers François Truffaut and Alain Resnais (La Guerre Est Finie...
...most famous unmarrieds in recent years, of course, were Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren; Ponti eventually became a French citizen in order to marry her. Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni and Actress Monica Vitti lived in separate apartments with a connecting interior staircase, until Antonioni won an annulment and the two were married. In less sophisticated circles, extramarital relationships are also common and accepted. "You want to know which of your friends are living together," says a Milan doctor, "not for gossip or to spread scandal, but to know how to address invitations to your parties...