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...worst art theft since World War II. Between midnight and 2 in the morning of Feb. 6, three paintings had been taken from Urbino's 15th century Ducal Palace. One was a portrait of an unknown noblewoman, nicknamed The Mute, by Raphael. The other two were by Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation and the Madonna of Senigallia...
Loss and Lobotomy. It was news to lock any art lover's spine with outrage. Raphael and Piero? Ever since Piero della Francesca was "resurrected" in the late 19th century, he has been to many people the epitome of 15th century thought: the great artificer of volume and silvery space, the very essence of the relationship between mathematics and nature in which the quattrocento's self-image was rooted. No Renaissance painter has spoken more eloquently to the 20th century than Piero, with his vision of a sublimely abstract order dwelling in a thicket of concrete and manifest...
...sight that greeted the curators of Milan's Gallery of Modern Art one morning last week looked like another ho-hum piece of conceptual art: 28 picture frames lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace...
...Nixon's last days? Said McLaughlin: "I did not want to say anything by way of a public defense that might inhibit him from recognizing that he should resign." There the maverick Jesuit was in agreement with Rome. Writing on Nixon's demise in L 'Osservatore della Domenica last week, Vatican Press Officer Federico Alessandrini concluded that the Watergate case had raised "a constitutional issue that left no choice open to any U.S. political parties, not even to the Republicans. The resignation was the conclusion of a story that ended with only one victor: liberty...
Already it looks as if commedia della calculator will fast become a national craze. Says James Rogers, an editor of Scientific American magazine: "I went through the stage of saying 'I don't need one of these.' But once you get one, it's sheer bliss." To achieve BLISS, punch 441304, divide...