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...does a Matisse: so with Moroni's extraordinary Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. The picture has its allegorical furniture. The ivy clinging to the ruin suggests clan loyalty, the broken statue (whose foot remains in the niche) symbolizes the passage of time, and the motto on the bas-relief, "Better the follower than the forerunner," is a manifesto of conservatism. Yet what counts visually is the brocaded red figure, glowing with arrested vitality against the gray ground of the past. Moroni did not overplay the tension between this expansive youthful red and the cool stasis of his drawing...
John Paul also visited the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. The Pope stooped to lay a bouquet of red carnations at the base of the tall black granite and marble monument and paused to study the heroic figures in bas relief, representing the 69,000 Jews who held out against Nazi forces for three weeks. News of the Pope's unexpected arrival spread quickly. Poles rushed to the windows of drab prefabricated apartment blocks overlooking the monument and congregated in a park laid out after the war on the rubble of the ghetto...
Longo is not without entrepreneurial desires. He staged performances, did sculpture and is producing a full-length film, Empire. His art got more ambitious, involving more people both in his pictures and as assistants in the studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas-relief in aluminum depicting a horde of struggling Wall Street types: a Roman battle sarcophagus with updated clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry...
...Historian Arnold Toynbee ranked as the equal of the Parthenon. Very little is known of the people who built and used it, or of the reasons it was permanently abandoned in 1006 after an earthquake and the eruption of the nearby Merapi volcano. Covered with some two miles of bas-reliefs that depict the life of Buddha and the sacred stories of Buddhism, Borobudur is a source of immense national pride to Indonesia, even though Islam is now the religion of more than 95% of its people...
...issue was the future of the second largest bank on Mitterrand's hit list, the dynamic Compagnie Financière de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas), with assets of $52.2 billion in 1980. After his election last May, Mitterrand expected companies and banks targeted for nationalization to refrain from transferring assets out of the country. But he never made it illegal for them to do so. Seizing on that loophole, Paribas reduced its stake in its Swiss subsidiary, Paribas Suisse S.A., from 72% to less than 50%, thus allowing other interests to gain control. While this was going...