Word: francescas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donna Francesca (Lucia Bose), the wife of the hospital director; Bianca (Marthe Keller), a nurse; and Carla (Barbara Bouchet), who is married to a member of Bonaccorsisi's staff. Other, lesser men may thirst for a glimpse of the world out side, but the asylum is sufficient for the doctor, who spends his time between rounds and beddings in the laboratory trying to isolate "the germ of schizophrenia." It is clear he has been inside the walls too long...
...this command over pigment. His typical setting is familiar: an anonymous oval room. It has tubular furniture, somewhere between a Corbusier couch and an operating table. Sometimes a bare bulb hangs down on its cord from the ceiling. It looks both sadistic and as ideal (almost) as Piero della Francesca's suspended egg. The people in the room are also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces...
...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...
Like Paolo and Francesca in the Inferno, lovers are swept about in this chaotic searching and meet only occasionally, by chance. The lost ones are not lost souls, but rather men without souls: "None looks within himself where none...