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WHEN Italian Portraitist Pietro Annigoni met Germany's new Chancellor, Dr. Erhard said: "I have seen some of your paintings of the British royal family. And I remember the one you did of President Kennedy. Tell me, how many sittings did they give...
...sketch for the cover was done from life in the Vatican by Italian Artist Pietro Annigoni (who painted last January's Man of the Year cover of John F. Kennedy). The painter's reaction to the Pope: "So nice, so simple, so direct, so close to you . . . and yet so terribly distant. Even the simplest conversation with him ended with a few words putting you in front of Eternity...
...Annigoni has probed beneath the smiling and immaculate exterior to reveal a man who holds the loneliest job in the world...
...long time have the editors of TIME received so much mail from readers as they have over Pietro Annigoni's cover portrait of President Kennedy as Man of the Year. The issue was also one of the biggest sellers on the newsstands in a long time. The verdict of the readers who wrote to us is running against the portrait-although (as our letters column shows) there is another group of readers, initially shocked, who end by praising...
...White House the diplomatic silence was broken by Caroline Kennedy, asking her father: "Daddy, where did you get those spooky eyes?" Artist Annigoni, in Florence, has been cheerily reading the critical letters in TIME and stands his ground: "I stayed with him many hours, watching while he talked, while he put questions. He then has a very special transformation in his face. I've seen the man at work and that's what I wanted to produce in a short time. I'm capable of criticizing myself. But from the point of view of interpretation," and here...