Word: arti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contains about 30,000 churches, 60,000 religious edifices, 200 state museums and many more regional and local museums. The number of works of art within them is beyond guessing-most collections remain uncatalogued-but the task of overseeing them falls to the Direzione Generale delle Antichita e Belle Arti, or Fine Arts Administration, an arm of the Ministry of Education that receives a mere 3% of the ministry's budget. The whole artistic heritage of Italy is supervised by 95 archaeologists, 92 art historians, 107 architects and 58 technicians. By comparison, New York's Metropolitan alone...
...result is that everything Olden burg makes is a testament to polymor phous perversity. Men construct arti facts and these, by some mysterious process of imitation, end up looking (to Oldenburg) like parts of bodies. These similarities are basic to his imagery...
...collection ranks some distance after other private and far older collections-those of the Doria, Colonna and Pallavicini families in Rome, the Corsini and Serristori in Florence and the Cini family in Venice. Still, Professor Mario Salmi, vice president of the Consiglio Superiore delle Antichità e Belle Arti, says firmly: "It is undoubtedly the finest private collection of Italian Gothic and Renaissance art made after 1900 in Italy...