Word: bertoldo
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...Bertoldo Garcia Cruz, a car mechanic, had just taken his son to Public School No. 3 on Avenida Chapultepec. "We were in the school's main office when everything around us, four floors, went down. I helped take out four bodies, mutilated, all 14-year-olds. I took one out who was injured, but maybe he'll live...
...Milan, his career as a cartoonist got under way. "I succeeded right away; I published my first drawing, and the magazine paid me for it." Living off his cartoons for Bertoldo, a satirical fortnightly, Steinberg in his early 20s could afford a reasonable facsimile of the boulevardier life he had read about as a child in Anatole France: buying new neckties in the Galleria, lounging in the Ristorante Biffi. "I had the rare, beautiful pleasure of making money out of something I enjoyed doing and then spending as soon as I made it. As I lunched, I knew that this...
Hypnotic God. One of Donatello's greatest successors was Antonio del Pollajuolo, whom Lorenzo de Medici called "the principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...
Steinberg mailed his first drawing in 1936 to an Italian magazine. Bertoldo, got $1.50 and much abuse from readers. Says he: "It was new, and they didn't like new things." But Steinberg continued working for Bertoldo for two years, then switched to Settebello and was also published in Harper's Bazaar, Brazil's Sombra, Argentine's Cascabel...
...unfair to Prince Liechtenstein of Liechtenstein to call the Dreyfus collection the "greatest private collection in the world," but Duveen Brothers got a good deal for their money. The collection is notably strong in sculpture: Verrocchio, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Mino da Fiesole, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Andrea Riccio. Painters include: Giovanni Bellini, Fra Filippo Lippi, Pesellino, Ghirlandaio. There is also a collection of medals and small bronzes which art critics call irreplaceable...