Word: raphael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each succeeding class has added to the collection. When scrap iron was scarce during the war, students rounded up 300 tons of the stuff. With the proceeds, Rock Springs bought paintings by Manhattan's Raphael Soyer, New Jersey's James Chapin and Connecticut's Ernest Fiene; with a bit left over, Halseth started a fund to buy Grandma Moses' $400 oil, Staunton, Virginia, The kids put on dances, stage shows, wastepaper campaigns, badgered their parents for contributions. People as far away as Manhattan heard about Rock Springs' art craze, wrote advice on what...
...modern world has never seen more than a faded hint of the magnificent frescoes executed by Raphael for the Vatican Palace's second-floor loggia. For three centuries after they were painted, the gallery's 13 bays had no windows; wind and rain tore at the pictures. Man was even more cruel: the frescoes were mutilated during the sack of Rome in 1527, later by Napoleon's troops in 1798; since then they have been botched by well-meaning restorers...
...months Dr. Deoclecio Redig de Campos, an assistant director of the Vatican's museums, bossed the delicate job of stripping away the rest of the wall, and last week he announced his discovery. Behind the bricks were two long, thin (12 ft. by 11 in.) sections of Raphael's original frescoes that had been forgotten for 400 years-swirling arabesques of lions' heads, leaves, flowers, crabs, human faces, all shining with their original vividness...
They are: Raphael Demos, Professor of Philosophy; Mark A. Howe, professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr, '25, Master of Eliot House; and the wife of Merle K. Fainsod, professor of Government...
...Dyck, paintings by Poussin, frescoes by Ingres. Into the tiny chapel they went, and headed directly for the altar, where two pictures hung: on the right, a small (28 in. by 35 in.) Infant Jesus, believed to be a Rubens; on the left, Angel Playing Violoncello, attributed to Raphael. Down came the paintings, frames and all. From concealed drawers the thieves took finely wrought vestments and a gold wafer dish. Then out they went, as silently as they had come. Paris newspapers estimated their choosy haul at 50 to 60 million francs ($142,860 to $171,430). His missing pictures...