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...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...
...time, she suffered cardiac arrest and was rushed to Yale-affiliated St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven where she remained in critical condition for several days...
...Ellen S. Raphael, the Senior Advisor for Wigglesworth, yesterday termed the incident "frightening" and said that residents in the entryway have been warned to keep their doors locked...
...other positions to be filled at tommorrow's meeting are council secretary, contested by Richard A. Bennett '85 and Kira R. Diaz '86, and treasurer, for which Stuart A. Raphael '86 is unopposed. Neither of the incumbents for these positions have chosen to run again, council members said yesterday...