Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tain agreed to. He wanted Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton's Groupe de Protection dissolved. This the Marshal also agreed to, although the GP was his own bodyguard. But when Ambassador Abetz demanded reorganization of the Cabinet, the ousting of Peyrouton and Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert, credited with heading the Pétain brain trust, Pétain asked for time...
...What Democracy Means to Me" will be the topic of discussion at the initial meeting of the Adams House Town Hall group Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room. Introductory speeches by Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, Richard B. Schlatter, instructor of History, Overton H. Taylor, lecturer in Economics, and Russell A. Nixon, instructor of Economics are scheduled. An open discussion from the floor will follow...
...conference the two men went out on the balcony and waved to the multitude. Close about them stood valets in medieval costume. The two drove out to a formal luncheon, then to the Pitti Palace, where hangs the lusher art of the Renaissance-the good fleshy art of Titian, Raphael and Rubens, which Adolf Hitler prefers to delicate primitives. There, in an air of preciousness, the two were regaled with chamber music...
...Copley, Watson and the Shark; a nude, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins in a towel antedated the work of meticulous Realist William Harnett...
...Washington the Widener collection's 14 Rembrandts (largest privately owned group in the U. S.), its Van Dycks and Titians, its Raphael Madonna (one of the few genuine ones in the U. S.) will be housed in galleries designated as Widener rooms, adjoining the sections set aside by the National Gallery for each school of painting. Some of the works may stay at Lynnewood Hall while Joe Widener is alive. Collector Widener referred questioners to young (45) P. A. B.'s family history, Without Drums, to be published this week (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $3). Says...