Word: argan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here has evoked anguished protest in Italy. Some of this is political (for in the wake of the Sindona and Calvi banking scandals, people are unsurprisingly skeptical of Vatican motives); but much of it comes from art historians of impeccable credentials, like the former mayor of Rome Giulio Carlo Argan, who holds that works like the Belvedere Torso, Caravaggio's Deposition and Leonardo's St. Jerome-all included in the exhibition-should not be exposed to the risks of travel, particularly for a show that has no scholarly purpose. But the Vatican does what it wants...