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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...
...future art historians, the Rockefellers of Manhattan may well rank with the Medicis of Florence as patrons of the best artists of their age. In most respects, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller stands as the Cosimo of the dynasty, by all odds the most lavish and most outspoken proselytizer, the most passionately concerned collector and patron in the family...
Other nations were more generous. Biggest single donor was the U.S., with a total display of 52 works. The Soviets sent a consignment of 13 works rarely seen outside Russia, including four from the Hermitage. Canada helped fill the Italian void with Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus, part of a group of ten pieces that modestly included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came...
...only museum collection of medieval armor, the Met has a 200-piece set of armorer's tools, some dating to the 16th century, including yard-long shears. In the penthouse studio, the restorers ("Most important men here," says Rorimer) contemplate a Renaissance Piero di Cosimo for months before attempting to remedy a millimeter's flaking. In the dungeon basements, a crusty bronze Vishnu lies in a vat of alkali soaking nearly a year until cleanliness restores it to godliness...