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...SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON is among the most perfectly preserved panels by RAPHAEL. It was a gift to Henry VII of England, commissioned by Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who had received the Order of the Garter from Henry. In the picture, St. George is clearly shown wearing the Garter. (The Mellon Collection...
...their portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German poet Rilke says, 'Their presence is the first degree of the terrible.' " Furthermore, great artists of the past represented angels as "unmistakably masculine and sometimes even a little muscular...
...even many of the scenic compositions, are copies from old masterpieces by Lippo Lippi, Pisanello, Carpaccio, Lorenzo. As the orchestra tunes up for the Capulets' ball, five little boys step up to sing, and suddenly are grouped, in lovely archaic rhythm, as a choir of cherubs in Raphael's style. Juliet, in the scene where she first sees Romeo, is dressed like Botticelli's Flora, and the lines of her head and neck might be a tracing from Veneziano's Portrait of a Young Lady...
...RAPHAEL SHALITT Los Angeles...
...Dynamics of Westernization in the Middle East" will be the topic discussed by Raphael Patai, professor of Anthropology at Dropsie College, at 8 p.m. tonight in the auditorium of the Littauer Center for Public Administration...