Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovely Greek Venus of Cyrene (see cut), a, marble carved in the style of Praxiteles by an unknown sculptor. The armless, headless Venus belongs to Rome's Terme Museum. ¶ Raphael's graceful Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin) from Milan's Brera Gallery. Painted about 1503, the Sposalizio, an early Raphael, is one of the world's best loved pictures. ¶ The famed "Ludovisi Throne,"* 5th Century B.C. Greek bas-relief, called The Birth of Venus. This work, thought to be an altar to Aphrodite, is one of the monuments of Greek art. ¶ Giorgione...
Addressing the conferences of the New England Inter-University Institute of Education and Peace, Alfred D. Simpson, associate professor of Education, Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government, and Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, will speak to students of Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley, M. I. T., Tufts, Boston College, and Boston University next weekend...
...home-and-home debate. The topic will be: "Resolved, That President Roosevelt's foreign policies led us into this war," and the Crimson debaters will again take the negative position. The judges will include Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, Merle Fainsod, associate professor of Government, and Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy...
...where Financier Stotesbury once gave concerts for 1,000 guests. Among the hidden paintings were ten Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded by an electric signal system wired to a specially installed power plant...
Collector Bache's favorite painters were Raphael, Holbein, Goya, Fragonard. But he seldom ventured to buy paintings without the advice of Britain's No. 1 art dealer, Lord Duveen, whose merchandising motto was: "Nothing but recognized masterpieces." The result is a popular quip: "The Bache collection-too, too Duveen !", and a group of paintings unmarred by any of the second-and third-rate art that usually creeps into such galleries...