Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was low in funds, II Sodoma gave in to the pleas of his admiring patrons and worked a bit. He had well assimilated the painting techniques of his consistently great contemporaries, Da Vinci and Raphael. He had once taken the trouble to copy Da Vinci's painting of Leda, which has since been lost, and II Sodoma's copy was long mistaken for the original. He could draw, when he cared to, with serene accuracy; he knew how to round out shapes by blurring their contours (sfumato), and how to steep his fingers in rippling depths...
Though he can draw like Raphael when he likes, he much prefers to voyage off to worlds that never were, and to return from them with his own devil-may-care impressions. To his admirers he is a restless, inventive, original genius. To his critics, including some of the other topnotchers in the school of Paris, he is a talented mountebank and irrepressible showman who has lured his followers and the world up a blind artistic and intellectual alley...
Brynteson held the Bunnies to eight hits, and walloped a pair of homers. Hugh Raphael also hit a round tripper for Dunster. Leverett's Dave Bloom hit two homers and the Bunnies' Jerry Gallo also smacked a four bagger...
...College awarded the James Adams Woolson Prize Scholarship in the Classics to Mary Frances Raphael, of New York City and the Brearley School. Fay Raphael, of Boston and the Girls Latin School, received honorable mention...
Dunster's softball team came from behind to beat Eliot, 7 to 5. Hugh Raphael's fifth inning homer tied the score, and the winning runs crossed in the sixth on a single by Tom Hunt...