Word: becking
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...hungry. Everyone I've sent to the enoteca (wine bar) lunch spot Bleve (Via Santa Maria del Pianto) or the more elaborate Costanza (Piazza del Paradiso) has been forever grateful. On a grander scale, for dinner, there is the multistarred La Pergola (Cavalieri Hilton, Via Cadlolo 101), where Heinz Beck provides a gastronomic feast while diners overlook the city in all its splendor...
...Someone once told me that we sounded like a cross between Coldplay and Beck, but with the seriousness of Spinal Tap,” says Ryan C. Hickox, lead singer and guitarist of local band The Franklin Kite. This comes from a man who himself is a cross of Carl Sagan and Gustavo S. Turner, as Hickox’s day job includes pursuing a PhD in Astronomy and acting as a resident physics tutor in Dunster House...
Among the 21 potential artists listed in the bill were Nas, Beck, OAR, The Killers, Ludacris, and John Mayer. Glazer said he hoped to have an artist selected within the next two weeks...
...lunettes was put there by Michelangelo himself, in a dark wash of black pigment in glue size, brushed on after the fresco was dry to give more density to the figures and atmosphere to the space. They think this wash is being "indiscriminately" swabbed off along with the dirt. Beck claims that Colalucci and his team, who have done nothing but study the Sistine for the past eight years, have still not studied it enough; and that the cleaning agent, AB-57, though used for cleaning fresco and stone since the early 1970s, is still insufficiently tested. The antis also...
What weakens the antis' case is that they have not produced clear physical or documentary evidence that any of the glue and lampblack on the Sistine was put there by Michelangelo himself. James Beck cites a phrase in an account by Ascanio Condivi, a Renaissance biographer, about Michelangelo applying "so to speak, the ultima mano" (final touches) to the mighty fresco cycle; but Condivi did not say what medium these touches were in. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), whose Lives of Italian artists is a fundamental source on the Sistine, describes how "Michelangelo desired to retouch some parts a secco, painting...