Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMONG the greatest collectors of art were Rome's Renaissance Popes, and under their patronage, Raphael and Michelangelo produced some of their greatest works. For a sampling in color of the Vatican Treasures, see ART, Matter and Spirit at the Vatican...
...matter and spirit fused; thus they can have particular appeal to religious men. The Popes of Rome especially have been lovers of art, and in Renaissance times their power as temporal princes made it possible to amass art treasure on a grand scale. On public view at the Vatican, that treasure has become one of Rome's crowning glories...
...Greek. More courageous was their patronage of living masters for the greater glory of God. Among hundreds of other artists, the Popes had the wisdom to commission Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo. These three, as devout and exalted artists as ever lived, vied with one another in service to the Vatican. Among them they exemplified and gave the highest expression to the three facets of beauty as articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas: wholeness, harmony, radiance...
Harmony was Raphael's blessing, both in himself and in his art. The golden boy at the Vatican while still in his 20s, he was loved even by the older painters he displaced and adored by those who came after. Freeing of St. Peter from Prison, completed for Leo X in 1514, surrounds the top of a window overlooking a Vatican garden, and, until the window was blocked off (see cut), the picture looked dark by contrast with the light flooding in. Raphael took advantage of this apparent difficulty by making the saving angel the picture's chief...
...film has its moving moments. The confrontation scene with the revolting young nephew has a slimy authenticity, and the cook's death is both sentimental and heartrending. The tour of Rome is fairly exciting, and some eye-filling episodes (Agfacolor) have been recorded in the Vatican. The main trouble with the picture: a bad screenplay that requires 14 actors, provides only two real parts...