Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was the strength of the reimagining, not just its archaeological correctness, that counted. Poussin's main regular job during his Roman years was drawing records of ancient sculpture for a rich antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire of figures that would fill his work in years to come. Rome was not just a boneyard of suggestive antiques...
...pressure of commissions. "Monsieur, these are not things that can be done at the crack of a whip," he wrote to his friend and patron Chantelou in 1645, "like your Parisian painters who make a sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done for Pozzo, who had a thing about elephants...
...including a son born last year with a heart defect. The stunning disclosure came after months of rumors about his extramarital love life and only a month after Cisneros declared he would not seek a fifth term. As observers were quick to point out, in a constituency with a Roman Catholic and Hispanic majority, his revelations about Linda, an Anglo, could make his retirement permanent...
...Democratic governor and the Republican vice president dueled from a distance on the campaign trail before sheathing their political swords and dining together at the annual, nonpartisan Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in Manhattan, sponsored by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York...
American Ideas introduces you to Sister Pearl Ceasar, a Roman Catholic nun in El Paso's Rio Grande Valley. Using the precepts developed by the late Saul Alinsky, a Chicago social activist, she is leading a campaign to bring drinking water to impoverished families along the Mexican border...