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...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...
...Assumption Day last August important art news leaked from Moscow to Riga, from Riga to Paris, from Paris to the front pages of the U. S. Press. The news leak: Andrew William Mellon had bought Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba for $1,500,000 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TIME...
...Alba Madonna, a round canvas of Mary, infant Jesus and St. John, was painted by Raphael about 1510 at Rome, acquired almost immediately by one of the early Dukes of Alba. His Duchess gave it to her doctor in payment of a bill. The doctor was later tried and acquitted of poisoning the lady. Tsar Nicholas I bought it in 1836 for $50,000 for his collection at the Hermitage. Badly cracked in being transferred from wood to canvas, the picture is in none too good condition, has been elaborately repainted, but because of its price and because there...
...Institute of Technology have published a collection of essays and entitled this "welter of conflicting opinion" "These United States." These articles are grouped under eight headings: society, business and economics, politics, science, religion, literature and art, and sport. Among the authors represented are: William B. Munro, Willard L. Sperry, Raphael Demos, F. W. Taussig, William Z. Ripley, Floyd H. Allport, Harold J. Laski, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Lippmann, Robert A. Millikan, Bishop William Lawrence, Max Eastman, and John R. Tunis...
Edward M. Rowe '27, Director of Debating, presided over the bench of justices, which included Raphael Demos '19, lecturer in Philosophy, Sydney B. Fay '96, professor of History, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, and Moses Ware '02, trustee of the Debating Council and professor of History at Browne and Nichols School...