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...later (there are no known drawings by Caravaggio). The sense of physical presence in his early work is so strong that a painting like The Ecstasy of Saint Francis, circa 1594, with its swooning saint and plump, comforting angel, is almost a homosexual version of the entranced flesh that Bernini was later to carve in his Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Caravaggio's angels and Bacchuses habitually looked as if they had been picked up in a Trastevere wineshop, which, no doubt, they were. Saint Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1597, is surrounded by the attributes of her martyrdom, the spiked...
...long last, the dispute was finally resolved. The result was a bequest to the city of Florence of 15 ceramic plaques from the della Robbia workshop, 38 pieces of Tuscan Renaissance furniture, 43 prime specimens of majolica and Hispano-Moresque faïence ware, twelve sculptures (capped by Bernini's small but superbly fashioned St. Lawrence on the Grill), and 35 paintings that any museum would be proud to own. Late this month they will go on display at the Pitti Palace in the apartments formerly set aside for the royal family on their ceremonial visits to Florence, thus...
Despite recent efforts to limit attendance, the general audience still draws an average of 10,000 people to the regular Wednesday and occasional Saturday sessions. Hence a battle for position goes on. And it is difficult to appreciate the glory of Michelangelo and Bernini when some child is whacking your shins, a woman has her pocketbook jammed into your floating rib and half a dozen nuns are giving you the old high-low so the mother superior can better enjoy this supreme moment...
Herded Sheep. They start gathering in St. Peter's Square as the sun comes over the magnificent Bernini colonnade -black suits and neckties, Bermuda shorts and T shirts, miniskirts barely covering buttocks, long-sleeved dresses with mantillas. In long lines before wooden barriers, young couples love each other up, oldsters lean wearily on crutches. A roar of protest in a dozen languages goes up as a middle-aged American with a red face tries an end run. He is spat on as he retreats, his wife near tears...
Lucchesi's sculptures are as Italian as Verkade's are Dutch. He works up his figures with a quattrocento Florentine passion for detail, and flings off flying draperies with the airy exuberance of a Bernini. The son of a Tuscan shepherd too poor to send him to art school, he learned his first lessons from the monuments in cemeteries, later managed to study in Florence. There he met and married a Brooklyn girl; and when they came to America in 1957, he began to exhibit in his father-in-law's picture-frame shop in Greenwich Village...