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Attic Simplicity. Ingres sketched incessantly: friends, neighbors, nudes. His favored exemplars were the pure forms of Greek sculpture, together with Raphael. His extraordinary ability to capture likenesses won him a portrait commission from the Emperor and the government's Prix de Rome. Using the prize money, he moved to Rome in 1806, lived in Italy for most of the next 35 years...
...will join a diverse company of young men on the make, including: Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits; Raphael Martinez of Mayor Lindsay's staff in York; David Hedison, star of TV's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea;" pianist Mischa Dichter; and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary...
...painted in 1863, rocked an art world accustomed to nymphs and satyrs, emperors and gladiators: it was obvious from the bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered the painting, Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe, a threat to public morals. Both it and Olympia today...
...company, the rebels charge, also forced dealers to absorb the cost of remedying factory-caused defects and even to pay for advertising they find valueless. Said Yonkers Dealer Raphael Cohen, chairman of the group's steering committee: "We think Dodge makes a fine product, but we want equal treatment from our manufacturer so we can compete...
...club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash her face once a fortnight." Prime Minister William Gladstone was "a vain old bird ... I never saw a person so creased . . . that...