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Caressing Shadows. Edouard Manet, who eventually won the Légion d'honneur ribbon, strove mightily to stay on the good side of the academicians. Though his subject matter was often as old as Giorgione's and Raphael's, the fact that he presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez...
...RAPHAEL McKAY...
Critic Pevsner notes that "during precisely the years of the Isenheim altarpiece, Raphael painted the Sistine Madonna." He leaves no doubt that he considers one the equal of the other...
...should not be subject to review by the Supreme Court. This stems directly from the Supreme Court decisions last year in the cases of New Mexico Lawyer Rudolph Schware, who had been denied a license to practice law because of previous Communist membership, and of California Lawyer Raphael Konigsberg, who was refused admission to the bar because he refused to answer questions about past Communist associations. The court ordered a license issued to Schware and that Konigsberg be admitted...
Others argued for the simple proposition that a Christian church-memorial or not-ought to be limited to Christian services. Such a restriction, contended Eastern Church History Professor Georges Florovsky of Harvard Divinity School, is "quite normal." Wrote Philosophy Professors Raphael Demos and Donald C. Williams: "A church is not a cafeteria in which all religions may be served to all comers. Any church is some Church ... As such it has its own order of worship and other rules. It has its own sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery...