Word: cosimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions than painting can. The great period for waxworks was the 17th to 18th century, when the favorite court artist of the next-to-last Medici, Cosimo III, was a Sicilian named Gaetano Zumbo, whose fiendishly detailed wax tableaux of plague-rotted bodies are still preserved in Florence. Hanson's proles, drunks, junkies and bulgy housewives do not reek of mortality like that, but they have a quotidian sourness about them, and their smell of perplexed...
Rossellini's Age of the Medici: The Power of Cosimo, with a Laurel and Hardy short, Sunday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. GUND HALL...
Roberto Rossellini's The Age of the Medicl: Cosimo Di Medici (Part one), Sunday...
...Environmental officers are working to correct-rather than penalize-most other routine offenders. Confronted with a case involving a clattering air conditioner, Cosimo Caccavari, the city's top acoustician, asked the owner to draw a floor plan of his house. Then Caccavari suggested moving the air conditioner to another location where it would not face any near neighbor. Similarly, he showed a paint-store owner, whose rooftop ventilators had brought complaints, how to build a noise shield that would stifle the racket. He also proved to officials of an excavating company that the vibrant rat-tat-tat of their...