Word: raphael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel's message; it was to be smeared with chicken blood and hung around his wife's neck...
...Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, added that he favored "putting some limit" on time spent getting degrees and encouraging "ability, not just research...
...largest church in Christendom, is a triumph of the second Rome that rose up under the Renaissance Popes from the ruins of classic Rome and the squalid clutter of the medieval city (which at one point had shrunk to a mere 15,000 malaria-ridden inhabitants). Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael quarried out of the classic ruins the great principles they used in constructing St. Peter's (and quarried the ruins themselves for much of the stone). But even pagan Rome offered no precedent for an approach space to match in grandeur the massive bulk of the church...
...knows "there are vitamins even in garbage," Picasso has parlayed inventiveness into a sizable garbage can. Art always contains elements of invention, but invention is not necessarily art. The final caricature by this apocryphal "genius" is the comparison of himself with Raphael...
...Buchner closed the doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings were packed for storage and loaded on trucks. The best were sent to the salt mines near Salzburg, Austria, where Buchner's careful investigation had found perfect temperature and humidity, and a bombproof mountain on top. Director Buchner...