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...month after Santa Trinita's destruction Architect Luigi Bellini surveyed the ruins jutting like stumps from the Arno's muddy waters, vowed, "We shall have a new bridge-where it was, and as it was." A citizens' committee headed by Berenson raised $100,000 abroad, Florentines contributed $30,000, the national government added a final...
...Ferrara. One of the most impressive feats of art sleuthing by X ray is reported by John Walker, director of Washington's , National Gallery, in his book, Bellini and Titian at Ferrara (Phaidon; $6.50). Sleuth Walker tackled one of the world's great masterpieces, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods (see color page), now at the National Gallery, managed to prove through X rays what no scholar could hope to do with the naked...
...historians long ago confirmed the ties between Bellini and Titian. Bellini, the master of 15th century Venetian painting, was more than 80 when he delivered his Feast to the proud, warlike...
Duke Alfonso I d'Este of Ferrara and his wife, Lucrezia Borgia. Bellini had called on the young talent of Titian to help finish the great canvas. After Bellini's death in 1516, Titian-who became the new Venetian master-won the commission to paint three other large, allegorical paintings for the duke's Renaissance study. As an added service, Titian repainted sections of the Feast to make it accord with the more luxury-loving tastes of his time-and, incidentally, to accord more with his own oils...
...again and again charged shouting demonstrators. On the floor of Parliament, a Deputy introduced a motion that would bar Maria Meneghini Callas from all of Italy's state-subsidized opera houses. Her offense: on opening night at the Rome Opera, Callas had walked out of a performance of Bellini's Norma after the first act, leaving behind her a glittering audience of notables, including President Giovanni Gronchi...