Word: colleoni
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...beer situation, told how he had given employment to "at least 300 men . . . in the harmless beer racket." He dwelt upon the injustice of his incarceration and Editor Brisbane printed it. For Hearstreaders who wondered about Capone's appearance, Editor Brisbane recommended a study of the equestrian statue of Colleoni* in the Chicago Art Institute on Michigan Boulevard...
...work of the two men, Verrocchio the realist and Desiderio the exquisite sentimentalist, dominates the exhibition. The same Verrocchio who produced the mighty Colleoni has given us the forceful bust of Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots...
Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...
...know of no other museum which exhibits the work of the great bronze founder Peter Vischer as comprehensively as ours or which, with the exception of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum at Berlin, has like ours a full-size reproduction of Andreas Schlucter's Great Elector, next to Verecchio's Colleoni the most remarkable equestrian statue in Europe. This whole collection of monumental casts, then, in connection with a growing special library on the history of German art, offers an ample and unique opportunity to the student of art for detailed study of particular schools or particular masters...