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Long ago, when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear...
Fashionable Cheese. His new devotion to Raphael, Dali believes, is just as fashionable as his handsome hotel suite in midtown Manhattan (which he once described as "an immense Gothic Roquefort cheese"). In fact, he says, "eet ees prophétique. Le people are tired of l'ugliness. Eet ees not possible to continue the destructive themes of Picasso. Mon revolution," he adds gravely, "ees very close to Catholicism...
...elections to secure a genuinely contrist "government of arbitration" spell the only way out of Greece's state of disunion, according to Emmanuel Tsouderos, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party and prime minister during the crucial Cretan stand in 1941. Tsouderos visited the University yesterday as a guest of Raphael Domes '19, professor of Philosophy...
When the German occupation troops left Greece, they left a bare 6000 volumes in the Anatolia library, President Ernest W. Riggs told Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy who played host for the University yesterday...
...exciting new plants. A new method of stipple engraving had made possible excellent prints in color. At Paris' Jardin des Plantes, men combining botanical knowledge with high artistic ability labored to record the new plants. The most famous of them was Pierre Joseph Redouté, sometimes called the "Raphael of flowers." Bessa was less prolific than his contemporaries, and his prints are rarer. But many collectors now consider him the greatest flower-painter of them...