Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles M. Bohlen '27, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religon, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, will speak at the 79th Commencement excercises of Radcliffe June...
Always intelligible, the chorus may well be quite an attraction in future performances. They have already achieved a good unison sound and, hopefully, will project more style into their stylized gestures as time goes on. Raphael Crystal's music provided an exciting musical foundation and added considerably to the force of the singing...
...lifetime that stretched from 1780 to 1867. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was reviled and honored and reviled again, but he scorned both tribute and taunt. "I took the road of the masters." he told his students. "That is what I did, gentlemen; I took the road of Raphael." This week 73 of his masterly drawings and paintings went on display at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg Gallery, thus bringing together for the first time the bulk of Ingres' works owned by U.S. museums and collectors. The gallery professed itself pleasantly surprised that such "an important and unsuspected corpus...
...David's figures remained solid and heroic, those of Ingres soon became pliant and touched with elegance. David took his inspiration from ancient Rome, and painted frequently from Roman statues. Ingres was struck by the Italian Renaissance primitives, by early Greek and Etruscan art, and above all by Raphael, who so gracefully bridged the worlds of the natural and the ideal. Because of his admiration for the primitives, the Davidians denounced him for returning "to the childhood of nature...
...Davidians receded into the new artist competitors loomed. The most threatening: Eugène Delacroix. Ingres was now the champion of classicism, though it was his own brand. Delacroix and his followers were romantics who worshiped not Raphael but Rubens. While Ingres exalted line and form and insisted that the brush stroke should never be visible, the new painters reveled in color and pigment. "Yes. to be sure," grumped Ingres, "Rubens was a great painter, but he is that great painter who has ruined every thing." He flatly refused to let his students even look at the Rubenses...