Word: cassiano
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...France to feed his imagination. It only existed in Rome: the presence of the recent masters from whom he learned so ! much, like Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, and the dead ones to whom he owed even more, like Titian and Raphael; the enlightened patronage of such connoisseurs as Cassiano del Pozzo or Cardinal Barberini, for whom he painted his supreme utterance about Roman political virtue, The Death of Germanicus, 1628. Above all, there were the traces of ancient Rome, a buried organism whose disarrayed bones protruded everywhere: columns, capitals, broken herms, arches, battle sarcophaguses, furnishing Poussin with a repertoire...
...Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was the strength of the reimagining, not just its archaeological correctness, that counted. Poussin's main regular job during his Roman years was drawing records of ancient sculpture for a rich antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire of figures that would fill his work in years to come. Rome was not just a boneyard of suggestive antiques; it was full of living art whose plasticity, color and narrative richness surpassed anything...
Carlo Ricci hurried home and with his relatives carried his wife to San Cassiano Hospital. There, Dr. Lavezzi, who had finally appeared in response to a second call, tried to stop the hemorrhage. It was too late. At 4:30 a.m. Giovanna Ricci died...
...done before in Hanover was the announcement of a coaching staff such as that which was pulled out of the hat last night. We can already see the Harvard Crimson, from their Ivy-League Cellar, tut-tutting the choice of All-Americans Bevan and Barley, the drafting of a Cassiano from the pro ranks. For the Crimson has often seemed to operate on the principle that Ivy League football is all right so long as it isn't good football...
...Pittsburgh, Dick Cassiano and George McAfee took turns dazzling a crowd of 50,000-but Cassiano's teammates were quicker on their feet, defeated Duke by the margin of a point-after-touchdown (14-to-13) in the biggest upset of the week...