Word: esposizioni
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Quadriennale officials, with 90 million lire ($145,000) to spend, set out to make this year's show the biggest & best ever, took over Rome's sprawling marble Palazzo delle Esposizioni to house it. To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...
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