Word: annigoni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pietro Annigoni's portrait of John F. Kennedy projected a magnificent image of an individual burdened with the world's most critical responsibilities. But it can hardly be termed a comely honorarium for a personality awarded the title of Man of the Year...
...Artist Annigoni painted Mr. Kennedy with a cauliflower left ear, asymmetric pupils, ptosis of the right upper eyelid, an eversion of the left lower eyelid, a hint of edema in his left cheek. The President displayed none of these findings when I had the honor of meeting him recently...
TIME'S choice to paint the President on his own seventh appearance on TIME'S cover, was Italy's famous portrait painter, Pietro Annigoni, 51, who made headlines in years past with his paintings of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. A vivacious and expansive fellow who lives in a kind of chaotic simplicity in Florence, surrounded like a Renaissance master with admiring students who call him Maestro, mix his paints, and fill in the backgrounds of his frescoes, Annigoni at first did not understand the need of secrecy, and soon the Italian press and radio...
...three days in mid-December, Annigoni sketched and painted in the President's oval office, for about seven hours each day. Between appointments, Kennedy would chat with Annigoni; at other times, with important visitors present, "they thought of me as a chair, a piece of furniture." Once the President wryly suggested his disapproval of a bold charcoal line representing his chin. The President showed Annigoni a small painting by another artist. "She'd be angry," he said, "if she knew I was showing it to you." Before long, Annigoni met the other artist, and they got along...
...President struck Annigoni as a man "who is always asking and always listening." Sometimes to his advisers, he would demand, "Say that again: What does it mean?" If an adviser strayed from the discussion at hand, the President would cut in, politely but crisply, "That's not the problem at the moment." Annigoni's judgment: "He seemed very calm: sober but not at all pessimistic. A realist, I think-a man who sees things as they are." It was this Kennedy, alert, responsive and concerned, not the grinning campaigner, that Annigoni tried to catch. "He didn...