Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady cost him $250,000-about $1,250 per square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted by her fellow townsman Raphael Sanzio, Mr. Epstein has letters from such authorities as Connoisseur Bernhard Berenson of Paris and Dr. George Gronau of Cassell, Germany. Mr. Epstein's agents, F. Kleinberger Inc., of Manhattan, told last week how Dr. Gronau had discovered her, through a friendly priest, in a dusty room in a decaying...
Modernist noses are elevated at any mention of Raphael Sanzio. It is fashionable, in some circles, to prefer the austerities and twisted imperfections of painters who, as they say, "knew less and hence could feel more," the pre-Raphael primitives. But the "modernists" of today are the conservatives of tomorrow. Painter Raphael's fame has never been any more gravely beclouded than was his princely young life, which, beginning at the ducal court of Urbino where his painter-father enjoyed generous patronage, was strewn with the gold of rulers and the blandishments of their women, in Perugia, Florence, Rome...
...Bramahte and Raphael," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall...
Bramante was the architect who persuaded the Pope to raze the old Church of St Peter, planning another which should be the greatest of the world, and it was according to his plans that the new foundations were laid. Raphael, Peruzzi, Michael Angelo and Juleano San Gallo, his successors, however, altered his plans so that little of the present edifice may be attributed...
...Lloyd George has visited the French Riviera for his health al most every winter; but this year, for the first time since his eclipse as Premier, he was officially welcomed and fêted near Saint Raphael by the local Prefect and representatives of the French Government. "I was astonished," said Mr. Lloyd George afterwards. "I tell you they'll be naming a street after me next...