Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never been inside a film studio? ... It is really [the same as a] palace of the 16th Century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers. There are fantastically beautiful women . . . incompetent favorites . . . great men who are suddenly disgraced . . . insane extravagances . . . unexpected parsimony . . . enormous splendor, which is a sham . . . horrible squalor hidden behind the scenery . . . vast schemes abandoned because of some caprice . . . secrets which everybody knows and no one speaks of. There are even two or three honest advisers. These are the court fools...
When Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third Duke of Alba, was dying, the priest asked him if he had forgiven his enemies. The 16th-Century tyrant answered: "I have no enemies; I have hanged them...
...working newsman, got himself repatriated on the Gripsholm. Then he rejoined Chennault as an Air Forces lieu tenant, was made a captain before the war's end. Brother Stewart, turned down by the U.S. Army because of high blood pressure, enlisted in the British Army, fought with the 16th Rifles in Africa and Italy as a machine-gun platoon commander. After the British gave him a captain's commission, the U.S. Army wanted him. He parachuted behind the German lines, fought with the French Maquis...
Scholars had long felt sure that the Meditation was Carpaccio's, but it took microchemical tests to prove it. Beneath three layers of varnish, the Met's experts came across some 16th Century skullduggery. A forged Mantegna signature had been added with the innermost layer...
Just why Carpaccio had gone anonymous, after finishing so masterly a painting of Job and Jerome seated with Jesus, no one seemed to know. But most experts could guess why Mantegna's name was forged to it: in the 16th Century (though not today) Mantegna was considered a greater painter than Carpaccio...