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...Berenson had nothing but affection for the work of the isth century Italian Artist Carlo Crivelli. But when B. B. came to write his authoritative studies of Italian Renaissance painters, he felt obliged to leave Crivelli out. Though the artist was the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, he remained, in Berenson's opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice in an exhibition...
...Misciano), who sang aria after aria in serene, long-breathing lines. Bright with sentimentally colored melodies, Orontea scored a hit even with the critic of the Communist L'Unita, who conceded that "it really is beautiful music." The audience did not quite hail the composer as a "miracolo della musica," as it did in Cesti's day-but it gave the friar the honor of 27 curtain calls...
...critic of Milan's Corriere della Sera sat down in shock and bewilderment to write a review of the wildest exhibition he had ever seen. It consisted, said he, of the "maddest coloristic orgy, the most insane eccentricities, the most macabre fantasies, all the drunken foolishness possible or imaginable." That was the general reaction a few years before World War I to a group of Italian rebels who called themselves futurists. This week 129 of their works went on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in the first comprehensive exhibit of futurism ever held...
EXETER: In Major Della Rovere-Vittorio De Sica transforms from a raffish war profiteer (he helps political prisoners escape--for a fee) to the embodiment of the heroic general he is forced to impersonate. Continuous from...
EXETER: Roberto Rossellini's latest (it's also one of his best) GENERAL DELLA ROVERE. Vittorio de Sica is a shiftless panhandler who impersonates the General for the Nazis, and is eventually metamorphosed into a man as brave and loyal as Della Rovere had been. An exciting and moving film. Evenings...