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...most versatile painting family in Italian history was the Carracci of 16th century Bologna, two brothers and a cousin who burst on the post-Renaissance scene as tireless and talented jacks-of-all-styles. Singly or together, they could turn out madonnas with Raphael's angelic sweetness, turbulent figures that writhed in Michelangelesque contortions, landscapes as peaceful as Giorgione's, plus a wealth of portraits, murals, ceiling decorations, caricatures. Their proud boast was that by borrowing from the best of the Renaissance masters they avoided becoming the followers of any one, instead were the equals...
...dazzling were the results that generations of critics confidently put the Carracci in a class with the greats: Michelangelo, Giorgione, Titian, Correggio, Raphael. But by the 19th century their repute had fallen so far that John Ruskin could dismiss their work contemptuously as "the scum of Titian." Bologna, proud of its own, decided this year once again to pit the Carracci against the critics, for the past two months has been staging the biggest Carracci show ever: 115 canvases and 250 sketches chosen from museums the world over. To the surprise of the sponsors, the Carracci have turned...
...paths Western art was to follow in the next two centuries. The ennobling gestures and grand manner were picked up by Rubens when he visited Rome, became a feeder line for the rhetoric and exuberance of the baroque artists. The Carracci's love of the local color of Bologna's narrow streets set the tone for realism; their caricatures created a style that Hogarth later cashed in on. Their reordering of the classical tradition was carried on by Poussin and the neoclassicism of Ingres; their concern for formal harmonies is still alive in cubism and 20th century modern...
Cloying Limit. In Fort William, Ont., eight Wisconsin anglers were fined $800 and had $400 worth of fishing tackle confiscated after bringing in 162 pickerel (legal limit: 48), explained: "We were tired of the bologna diet back home...
...busy little friend of the poor, polled more votes than any mayor ever had, but ended with only 25 city council seats out of 60, v. 31 in 1951. In Rome the Christian Democrats increased their vote by 13 percent but lost twelve of their 39 seats. In Bologna, the only city over 250,000 to go Communist, burly Red Mayor Giuseppe Dozza routed his ascetic challenger, Giuseppe Dossetti. In Naples free-spending Millionaire-Monarchist Achille Lauro won so resoundingly that newspapers dubbed him "Achille the First, King of Naples...