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...exploring forgotten periods and personalities in art," he says. "But along with the 'fresh' look has often come the faded flower. Our collections are blossoming out with Torbidoes instead of Titians, and the names of Bartolommeo della Gatta, Alumno de Benozzo and Cecco del Caravaggio are found on those little, unreadable labels which we persist in affixing to antique frames." University art departments are also apt to suffer from acquisitionitis-the compulsion to get something, no matter how inferior, from as many periods and schools as possible. Advises Rich: "Put the prospective acquisition next to the Goya...
...13th century church-state politics comprehensible, and in addition has performed the stupefying task of sorting out Frederick's romances (he fathered legitimate children by several queens and was responsible for numberless bastards; in addition, making no distinction between sexes, he carried on a lifelong affair with Pier della Vigna, the lowborn lawyer who may have invented the sonnet). The novel is not, like its subject, a stupor mundi, but it is a careful, craftsmanlike job, done with intelligence and conscience...
Rome last week bustled with preparations for this opening ceremony. In a hall on the Via della Conciliazione, the 41 priests and seminarians selected as stenographers for the council struggled to master a special Latin shorthand devised by Professor Aloys Kennerknecht of Mainz University. Inside the nave of St. Peter...
Feeling like the sorcerer's apprentice, Carandente desperately sought to find some place for the gusher of art he had tapped. Finally he hit upon a ist century Roman amphitheater near Spoleto's Piazza della Liberta. A few days before the Festival of Two Worlds opened, an enormous truck lumbered into town from the Voltri mill groaning with no fewer than 25 pieces by David Smith...
Died. Mario Crespi, 82, multimillionaire co-owner (with his two surviving brothers, Aldo and Vittorio) of Milan's staid daily Cornere della Sera, Italy's biggest (circ. 450,000), most influential paper, a landowner, industrialist and art collector; after a long illness; in Milan...