Word: barberini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinations of the exhibit is the juxtaposition of paintings that gallerygoers would normally have to travel miles to compare. An outstanding example is two wood panels illustrating the birth of the Virgin and her presentation in the temple, which until the 1930s hung in the Barberini Palace in Rome. Then one was acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan, the other by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Now they are back together again, offering a double portion of the pale palette, polished perspective and high-waisted principessas painted by the anonymous 15th century artist known only as "the Master...
...Rome's American Academy, Lavin revealed five new sculptures that he attributed to Bernini: a small boy with dragon, two marble putti in the Barberini chapel in the Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle, plus two portrait busts from Confraternita della Pietá (a 17th century charity hospital demolished in 1937), long forgotten in the cellar of an adjacent church. Each is stamped with the baroque characteristic of the human presence hyperpersonified, with anatomy in strain, gestures exaggerated, details made into drama...
...have made sketches in his cradle. When he was not yet 15, he won the patronage of Chancellor Pierre Séguier (see color), who later sent him to Rome to study with the expatriate classicist Poussin. Le Brun was solidly attached to the papal court of the Barberini family, and after the Pamphilis took over, he headed back to France. Plunging into the Parisian artistic establishment, Le Brun helped organize the Royal Academy, became its rector, and began to tighten his grip on the new generation of painters and decorators...
Italian high-fashion designers displayed their fall collections last week in Rome's magnificent Palazzo Barberini. Set in such baroque splendor, the clothes took an occasional second place to statuary but, by and large, emerged victorious-and lovely. The year's top Italian fashion news: the look, in general, is fanciful and "romantic...
...equal comfort and no lack of style, Perrone's three-tiered gloves-additional sections of which can be buttoned on as the day grows more formal. But perhaps the greatest contribution to the three-day showings was made not by any one designer or even by the luminous Barberini background but by six giant pythons who gave their lives for the snakiest raincoat in fashion history...