Word: bolognas
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...Arrayed with scholarship and point in the quiet rooms of the Morgan Library were illuminated manuscripts, art objects and drawings from the 9th to the 17th Century, portraying the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. Choice items: a recently acquired 14th-century missal illuminated by the great Niccolo da Bologna; a gold and enamel 12th-Century altar; Raphael's original drawing of the Agony in the Garden for a famed altarpiece owned by the Metropolitan Museum...
...Mussolini took her small son Romano and baby daughter Anna Maria down by car from the Mussolini family farm at Forli to say good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance...
...which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking fests. Tjaden, wooing the mayor's daughter, gaily drapes bologna strips about his neck while hungry mobs riot outside...
Recently acquired by the Fogg Art Museum is a statuette, probably a contemporary copy, of a Venus by Giovanni; Bologna, who worked in Florence in the 16th Century. The figure is small, being but ten inches high and owes its elegance to the high lustre of its dark bronze as well as to its interplay of line...
During the late Renaissance, Bologna was the foremost sculptor of large and even colossal statues; likewise he was foremost as a producer of statuettes. It is in the latter that the "contortions" inherited from the aged Michael Angelo are far less disturbing than in his larger works...