Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...
...Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba, $1,166,400, "worth more than all three of the Raphaels in London's National Gallery...
Arrested in Manhattan, charged with smuggling a stolen bracelet into the U. S. by proxy, was Cinemactor George K. Arthur (Riptide). At Cannes last summer, according to Scotland Yard operatives, Cinemactor Arthur met a London banker named Stephen Raphael, took a suite with him, made off with a diamond-&-sapphire bracelet worth $1,650. On the Cannes beach, he met Mary Hewitt Jopling, 18, daughter of President Morgan W. Jopling of New York Rubber Co. By telling her the bracelet was his mother's, he persuaded her to wear it back to the U. S. Banker Raphael and Scotland...
...purpose to quarrel with Mr. Wickham over his omissions, which were necessary if the book was not to become fat like the volumes of van Marle. You will find Titian's "Charles V," and you will rejoice if you like that portrait; you will also find Botticelli's "Venus," Raphael's "Julius II," and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted...
...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...