Word: raphael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Palmer, Dick Hill, and Bob Leete may complete the three-quarter line, but Adam Raphael and Brent Kreelman on the wings, and Reza Majd and Tom Eldridge in the center are all strong possible, as is scrum half Mariano Ezpeleta...
...from the late Andrew Mellon and a promise of perpetual maintenance from Congress. Before long, the gallery would open, with a great fanfare. Inside its vast walls of naked, flesh-colored Tennessee marble, the public would find a trove of masterpieces from the Mellon collection-such unparalleled works as Raphael's Alba Madonna, Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi. But the hideous truth was that the Mellon collection, for all its scope and grandeur, could not begin to fill the gallery's 5½ acres of exhibition space. It looked very much as though the National Gallery...
...been a dirty word in the art historian's book, meaning "in the manner of" -or something akin to copycat. Renaissance enthusiasts use it to describe the painters who, in the century from 1520 to 1,620, tried to ape the much-admired manner of Michelangelo and Raphael, but, in missing the essence, turned out clumsy, valueless paintings. But art critics are now making an abrupt about-face. The long-despised Mannerists have at last been rescued from the dustbin and brushed off, to become Europe's latest vogue...
...Feverish Age. The abruptness which marked the end of the Renaissance's Golden Age shocked even the men who lived through it. When the art-loving Medici Pope. Leo X, bowed his head in sorrow at Raphael's death on Good Friday, 1520, he was unknowingly mourning the death of Renaissance Man. Within seven years, Rome, the symbol of Europe's stability, lay smoking and sacked by German and Spanish troops...
...Raphael is too sweetly radiant for modern taste, which prefers the mystery of Leonardo or the power of Michelangelo. But he, more than either of them, blends pagan joy in life with the loving-kindness of Christianity. Through Raphael's genius the old gods were reborn into a gentler, better world than the classical-an achievement that marked the apogee of Renaissance...