Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clifton Raphael...
Sullivan defended the huge write-off as a "onetime event" to cleanse its books, and there was little evidence that the bank's losses would continue. Said New York City Analyst Raphael Soifer, a member of the Brown Brothers Harriman banking firm: "There is no reason for panic. First Chicago has a problem, but it's solvable." Still, investors and depositors could not help being startled. Experts had assumed that the economic recovery would already have eased the problem of bad loans. But First Chicago's setback from lending in energy and agriculture demonstrates that some industries...
...thing to draw Polynesian temples or the megaliths of Easter Island, as the Georgian William Hodges or Sydney Parkinson did, and quite another to imitate primitive styles as though their artists were as worthy of homage as Raphael or Ingres, which modernism did. The transition from one to another began with Paul Gauguin...
...British Museum passed up a $7.5 million package deal on old masters' drawings from the Duke of Devonshire's collection. Bit of a mistake, that. Last week in London, Christie's auctioned off the 71 drawings for $28.5 million, including a record-breaking $4.8 million for Raphael's study of a head and hand. No drawing had ever before sold for more than $1 million. No sooner had the gavel dropped than "the greatest picture ever painted," J.M.W. Turner's Seascape: Folkestone, was put on the block at Sotheby's. That modest assessment came...
...special phantoms of the English mind. The P.R.B. wanted to reform English art, to drag it from the swamp of maudlin genre and low-grade history painting. They believed, with the ardent simplicity of young minds, that this decay had set in three centuries before, with Raphael. Hence they wanted to go back before Raphael, appealing to a moment in history-the Middle Ages on the cusp, as it were, of the Renaissance-when art seemed not to be entangled in false ideals and academic systems. Their bywords were purge, simplify, archaize. Like all true cultural revolutionaries, they were conservatives...