Word: raphael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painters of the past did their masterpieces in oil from 32 to 36. Raphael did the Sistine Madonna at 35 and died at 37. Yet Da Vinci worked on The Last Supper in his 40s. And the durable Michelangelo, who lived to be 89, is best remembered for his The Last Judgment, done...
Italy's foremost Casanova expert, retired Journalist Gino Damerini, was immediately called in. He said the costume was typical of the dandified Casanova; other experts testified that it was surely Casanova, with the same heavy eyelids, arrogant nose and sensual lips. The painter, according to the experts: Raphael Mengs, an 18th century Bohemian master...
...15th century the church had approved the practice), did countless sketches and cross sections, working to get just the right swell of a bicep, the right organ in the right place. The Metropolitan shows a precise study by Leonardo of a baby in a womb. Raphael spent long hours dissecting; Curator Mayor shows how his later figures lose their smooth look and take on bone structure and strong, adult muscles. Not until 1543, when the Belgian Anatomist Andreas Vesalius published his book of superb anatomical drawings, did artists have a text...
...Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion at Harvard, yesterday favored the proposed change. He said "Humanities is what feeds the spirit of man. It is what we fight for and we live for. Natural sciences and social sciences are means to an end; humanities...
...program ended with a "Concert Study for the Pedal," by one Raphael Manari, a composer so obscure that he is not even mentioned in grove's nearly exhaustive Dictionary of Musicians. All that I know about him is that he was a teacher of the Vatican's present organist. The music is bombastic and superficial. a work by one of the moderns would have been a much more welcome finale...