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Medardo Rosso was a rebel. A shaggy, red-bearded bohemian, he called Greek and Roman sculpture "nothing but paperweights." The curly beard of Michelangelo's Moses was "Neapolitan spaghetti" to him. While studying at the Brera Academy in Milan, he punched a fellow student and was expelled. He took haven in Paris' Montmartre district in the days of Degas, Lautrec and Rodin. What did he think about Rodin, his senior by nearly 18 years? "Rosso loves Rosso," was his cool reply...
Wonderfully Disgraceful. The newest De Chirico malediction involved Milan's respected Brera Galleria, which last week put up for sale 248 examples of modern art that included six De Chiricos, two of them in his metaphysical style. Strolling through the exhibit before the sale, white-thatched De Chirico, now 72. was spotted by an attendant who asked: "Maestro, if you were on a sinking ship with these six paintings, vhich one would you save?" "I'd save them all," replied the maestro, and promptly went about "saving...
...years Manzù taught at Milan's Brera Academy ("You can't teach art, only techniques"), now works in a whitewashed, high-ceilinged studio on the city's outskirts, specializes in the figures of dancers (see overleaf). He is also at work on bronze bas-reliefs for the "Door of Death" (opened only for funerals) in St. Peter's in Rome. While modern sculpture continues on its merry road to abstraction, Giacomo Manzù keeps to the realistic tradition. "I am a modernist," he says, "but I do not deny the past...
Napoleon-in-his-birthday-suit was sculptured by Antonio Canova in 1811; since 1859 he has greeted the startled visitors who enter the large courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera in Milan...
Both sides were confident enough to take those risks. The month of truce had given Israel time to organize its half-formed army more thoroughly. Fighting with their backs to the sea, the Jews were telling each other last week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla...