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Raphael: Paintings
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St. Raphael is one of seven Archangels who stand before the throne of the Lord. He was sent by God to help Tobit, Tobiah and Sarah. At the time, Tobit was blind and Tobiah's betrothed, Sarah, had had seven bridegrooms perish on the night of their weddings. Raphael accompanied Tobiah into Media disguised as a man named Azariah. Raphael helped him through his difficulties and taught him how to safely enter marriage with Sarah. Tobiah said that Raphael caused him to have his wife and that he gave joy to Sarah's parents for driving out the evil spirit in her.
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In the 1990 film adaptation, Raphael, who speaks with a distinctive tough-sounding Brooklyn accent (that was imitated in the later versions of TMNT), is the turtle whose character is explored most completely. He has a quick temper, uses mild profanity, verbally challenges Leonardo and is the first one to meet the human characters, April O'Neil and Casey Jones; an unexplored romantic subplot between him and April O'Neil, limited because of their difference in species, is hinted at. In the middle of the film, he is ambushed by the Foot Clan and severely injured (this happens to Leonardo in the original comics and the 2003 series); after this, his role is lessened somewhat, although he recovers. At the end of the movie in the battle with Shredder, Raphael is the first to get rid of his weapons upon The Shredder's demand in order to save Leonardo's life; once again this shows his values of family precedes anything else, even his own ego.
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Raphael's story begins in a pet store where he and his three brothers, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello, were purchased by a young boy. On the way home from the pet shop there was a fateful accident. A blind man was crossing the road when a truck labeled "T.C.R.I." almost ran him down. A young man behind the boy with the turtles ran out to save the blind man, bumping the boy with the turtles and knocking the jar from his hands. The jar broke when it landed in the gutter, and the turtles were washed down a sewer drainage grate.
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"This applies less to a smaller fresco, which Raphael painted in the villa (now called the Farnesina) of a rich banker, Agostino Chigi. As subject he chose a verse from a poem by the Florentine Angelo Poliziano which had ... helped to inspire Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus'. These lines describe how the clumsy giant Polyphemus sings a love song to the fair sea-nymph Galatea and how she rides across the waves in a chariot drawn by two dolphins, laughing at his uncouth song, while the gay company of other sea-gods and nymphs is milling round her. Raphael's fresco shows Galatea with her gay companions; the picture of the giant was to appear elsewhere in the hall. However long one looks at this lovely and cheerful picture, one will always discover new beauties in its rich and intricate composition. Every figure seems to correspond to some other figure, every movement to answer a counter-movement.
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Raphael's fame, after three centuries of unclouded splendour, has been violently attacked during the last century. The progress of historical criticism and the discovery of the "Primitives" were the beginning of a reaction as violent as it was unjust. It was asserted that the Renaissance, instead of furthering the progress of art, was a source of decadence. A school was founded bearing the standard of the Pre-Raphaelites. This school, whose herald was John Ruskin, did much good, but without denying it its due, it is time to reject some of its narrow and prejudiced judgments. There is no doubt that Raphael, like other men of genius, had no pupils worthy of him.
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In the first feature film, Raphael was portrayed by Josh Pais, both in the suit and the voice. Josh Pais is a native lower east side New Yorker, a natural to voice and ... portray Raphael under the 80+lb costume. He described the headpiece with all of its noisy motors like, "Grand Central station at rush hour with a tin can on your head."
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