Word: raphaels
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...across the footbridge across the Charles, the sun was setting with a few last rays lighting the green-covered walls and white spires of Cambridge. The cars rushed along on the highway with their headlights going and on the river a few last boats of crew raced. Monet and Raphael are right, I think, the world is beautiful...
...artist to come under his barely fledged wing was Leonardo da Vinci, who went to France and died in the royal chateau at Amboise in 1519. But when the King turned to the remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome in 1527 and now, by a quite oneiric fluke of luck, became impresario of all the royal studios and workshops...
...start into a performance of unassuming ease: this is fitting in a character that can tend to brash self-righteousness. Walter Murphy, a fifteen-year-old from an acting program at Phillips Brooks House, plays Nick (who, at Murray's urging, calls himself everything from Dr. Morris Fishbein to Raphael Sabatini) as he should be--bright, engaging, and a little bit bizarre...
These men did not dislike Raphael or other high Renaissance masters; however, they felt that this man's art had given rise to too many second-rate imitators in the Royal Academy. Whereas the academy painters slavishly copied casts of ancient sculpture according to the Renaissance code of proportion and perspective, the pre-Raphaelites wanted to study nature. For this reason they called for a return to art before Raphael--an art that they believed had not yet been frozen by rules and formulas but was forthright in representing the natural world...
...Mary Lake sold a portrait of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, and got $325 for it from Parke-Bernet. Later, experts certified it a Raphael, and Mrs. Lake sued the buyer, claiming the painting was now worth $ 12 million, and that she had been deceived by earlier "experts" who said it was a painting by an unknown member of the Italian school...