Word: botticellis
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...memory than magic, what playgoers remember and rue about their own first stumbling, infatuated steps toward love. "Tchaik" (Brian Bedford), a whimsically imaginative boy nicknamed for Tchaikovsky, is pathetically in earnest about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for him in a reproduction of Botticelli's Venus over his bed. With fear and trembling, plus a savvy pal's coaching, he has invited to his scrubby flat what he thinks is a feminine moonlight sonata. Enter the girl (Geraldine McEwan), a sniffly, scratchy, giggly chick with the inner beauty of a beer...
...paintings valued at $150 million. It includes the only Leonardo da Vinci in private ownership, a lush portrait of a Florentine maiden called the Ginevra dei Benci, as well as 27 Rubens paintings that are valued at $11 million, and paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Botticelli. The public is allowed to see only 75 of Franz Josef's lesser pictures, which are sandwiched into a modest building in Vaduz along with the tourist office and the national postage-stamp museum. The closest the Liechtenstein family comes to sharing its greatest paintings with the world is allowing them...
...into lava rock. Besides collecting pesos, he acquires Dresden figurines, Chinese jade, Venetian glass and ancient Spanish books that he often pores over until 2 a.m. His house also shelters Mexico's most distinguished selection of wines (7,000 bottles) and its finest private art collection-El Greco, Botticelli, Van Dyck, Dali, Diego Rivera-as well as Pagliai's picturesque third wife, international Screen Star Merle Oberon.* When someone once asked why he does not retire to contemplate his gentle Corots and just clip coupons, Pagliai replied that "clipping coupons gives you calluses on the brain. I work...
...Place like Rome. Anna Rowland, an American heiress who looked like a Botticelli, arrived in Rome trailing clouds of 19th century transcendentalism and money. She quickly became a princess (by marriage) and a Catholic (by conversion). Her New England cash restored the frescoes in the Roman palazzo...
...section. We have added more pictures inside and have introduced a variety of artistic styles on our cover. For our anniversary issue, it seems quite appropriate to us that we have a cover that looks to the future in space but makes a gentle bow to the past through Botticelli's Venus...