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Italy Asks a Banner Question: Whodunit?; Some Art Experts Believe Letters on Saint's Cloak Are Raphael's Monogram [Correction 12/20/ 04]
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The Renaissance artist painted Jesus flanked by two saints on a
ceremonial banner used by a Roman Catholic brotherhood. He decided to
sign it with his monogram, a privilege usually reserved for masters.
As the painter was no more than 16 years old and working in a
provincial town far from the art capitals of Rome and Florence, it
was a bold act. As if to emphasize his self-assurance, the artist
repeated the monogram, in gilt, several times along the edge of a
cloak worn by one of the figures, St. Ubaldo.
Five hundred years later, restorers of the badly weathered banner
would marvel at the ...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of Navarre, 1492; Sir John Eliot, parliamentarian...statesman, 1794; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist, 1810...architect, 1514; Sir Thomas Wyatt, conspirator, executed...killed, 1512; Sir Thomas Fairfax was victorious...
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Thursday, Feb. 7
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...this date: 1554 - Troops under Sir Thomas Wyatt march on London. 1793 - Austria...Guerrillas kill four Israeli soldiers in an ambush in Lebanon that draws...protests. Today's Birthdays: Sir Thomas More, English Lord Chancellor...
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Obituary: Robert Parsons
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...validity of the remodelling by James Wyatt, who redesigned the south front...1540s by John Poyntz, a friend of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who addressed an important epistolatory...Parsons first came to England as a soldier in the US Army during the Second...
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Tuesday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great Britain...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Sunday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1776 - George Washington...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Thursday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great Britain...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Friday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great Britain...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Hunting, hawking and the early Tudor gentleman: James Williams considers hunting as the ideal pastime for the nobility in the sixteenth century.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Desiderius Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, hunting was deemed...hart a force.' The poet Thomas Wyatt associated hunting with...educational writer Sir Thomas Elyot writes of Xenophon...real fighting. An Irish soldier was stabbed with a boar...
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SEN. CARL LEVIN CHAIRMAN SEN. CARL LEVIN HOLDS A HEARING ON RESERVE COMPONENT PROGRAMS OF THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
Transcript from: Washington Transcript Service
; ...OFFICIO WITNESSES: THOMAS HALL, ASSISTANT...LT. GEN. HARRY WYATT III, DIRECTOR...GRAHAM: Yes, sir. NELSON: We've...GRAHAM: Thank you, sir. NELSON: Lindsey...welcome back Mr. Thomas Hall, the assistant...essence of the citizen soldier. And as we enter...
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Irish cowboys who tamed the West.(REVIEW)
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
; ...Carson, Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp -- led more colourful lives. One such man was Thomas Fitzpatrick. The Cavan native...aplenty in the Wild West. Sir George Gore, a Dubliner...ranchers, Indian fighters, soldiers, sheriffs and outlaws...
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