Word: pantheon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...strike wore on, urchins and a few old men & women prowled through the mounting piles of rubbish, patiently searching for scrap paper, cloth, bits of metal and cigarette butts. Cats & dogs dropped in for tidbits. Not far from the Pantheon, the traditional rendezvous of Roman cats, a spinsterish old woman called pleadingly to her bloated black & white cat, which feasted from a rubbish heap. In a nearby cafe, brawny comrades jeered. The old woman turned on them: "If the poor thing dies from indigestion, you will be to blame, you rebels...
...WORLD Is NOT ENOUGH (500 pp.) - Zoe Oldenbourg - Pantheon...
...Prague, a few hours earlier, Masaryk's coffin had rested on a black bier in the black-draped, vaulted pantheon of the National Museum. Stretching beyond its doors, through 3½ miles of Prague streets, perhaps 500,000 people waited with flowers, babies, and tears for a glimpse of the coffin. In the museum, partially lighted by four guttering candles in tall silver sticks by the bier, two speeches were made...
...SLEEPWALKERS (648 pp.)-Hermann Broch-Pantheon...