Word: raphael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exciting new plants. A new method of stipple engraving had made possible excellent prints in color. At Paris' Jardin des Plantes, men combining botanical knowledge with high artistic ability labored to record the new plants. The most famous of them was Pierre Joseph Redouté, sometimes called the "Raphael of flowers." Bessa was less prolific than his contemporaries, and his prints are rarer. But many collectors now consider him the greatest flower-painter of them...
Died. Dr. Morris Raphael Cohen, 66, Russian-born philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, writer and wit; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. The big-domed professor was an intimate of famous minds (Einstein, Cardozo, Holmes), a sharp-tongued champion of students, author of several notable books (Faith of a Liberal...
...time Albert Malsin died in 1923, Lane Bryant's was grossing $5,000,000 a year. Under the presidency of Lane Bryant's oldest son, Raphael Bryant Malsin, 47 (who took over in 1938), it has continued to expand. Lane Bryant Malsin is still on the board of directors, still owns 23% of Lane Bryant's valuable stock. But whatever Ray wants to do is all right with her. Said she this week: "I really never was a business lady...
Anyone who paints elephant-nosed women and six-sided guitars, and calls them art, should obviously see an oculist -or a doctor. But what if the patient can draw like Raphael when he chooses...
...time the critics got the point of Cubism, Picasso had moved on. He paused with a neoclassical manner which combined the flowing, controlled line of Raphael and a sculpturesque mass and weight new to painting. But the beauty came too easily, and there was a hint of something false about it. "When we love a woman," said Picasso, "we don't start measuring her limbs...