Word: raphael
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Spots and Peaks. Since Chateaubriand, like his country, was a latecomer to art collecting, the classical, medieval and Renaissance periods are only spottily-though sometimes handsomely-represented. There are two Titians, a Raphael Resurrection of Christ, a Mantegna St. Jerome, a commanding Velásquez portrait. There are also some diverting minor works, such as Quentin Metsys' Contract of Marriage, a droll example of genre by a Flemish contemporary of Erasmus, showing a young man dutifully snuggling up to an ugly but rich old wife...
...Raphael Demos, a retired Harvard professor and an authority on Plato, died Thursday of a heart attack aboard the S.S. Anna Maria, shortly before it arrived in New York...
...current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story. A virgin, fought over by the Angel Raphael and Satan, ditches them both for the bucolic, sensual pleasures...
...current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story. A virgin, fought over by the Angel Raphael and Satan, ditches them both for the bucolic, sensual pleasures...
...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Oscar-winning Darling, now team to bring Hardy's brooding novel to the screen, with outstanding performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...