Word: brera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides were confident enough to take those risks. The month of truce had given Israel time to organize its half-formed army more thoroughly. Fighting with their backs to the sea, the Jews were telling each other last week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla...
...lovely Greek Venus of Cyrene (see cut), a, marble carved in the style of Praxiteles by an unknown sculptor. The armless, headless Venus belongs to Rome's Terme Museum. ¶ Raphael's graceful Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin) from Milan's Brera Gallery. Painted about 1503, the Sposalizio, an early Raphael, is one of the world's best loved pictures. ¶ The famed "Ludovisi Throne,"* 5th Century B.C. Greek bas-relief, called The Birth of Venus. This work, thought to be an altar to Aphrodite, is one of the monuments of Greek art. ¶ Giorgione...