Word: frescoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong sunlight that bathes Italy, the Renaissance masters reveled in huge walls of spectrum-splattered fresco. In darker Northern Europe, the Renaissance first came in the more compact fashion of the graphic arts, in which line dominates color. And no one in the Renaissance drew a finer line than Albrecht Dürer (see color...
...teammates, even to his few close friends Koufax's aloofness is often downright annoying. "Imagine," says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "being goodlooking, well-off, single-and still so cool. I know guys who would be raising all kinds of hell on those stakes." Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson considers him a heretic. "I don't think he likes baseball," mutters Thompson. "What kind of a line is he drawing anyway-between himself and the world, between himself and the team...
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
...committee rooms of Congress, he painted frescoes of Washington at Valley Forge and The Battle of Lexington, and he adorned the corridors with landscapes, studies of wildlife and signs of the zodiac. His crowning achievement was the Capitol dome: 4,664 sq. ft. of concave fresco, with figures 15 ft. high, purposely distorted so that they would appear natural to spectators below. It took him eleven months to finish, lying on his back on a scaffold, 180 ft. above the floor...
...luscious fresco depicting The Triumph of Venus looked down upon a group of delegates from the world's most prosperous nations as they gathered last week at Le Bocage, a lakeside villa in Geneva. The serious beginning of the Kennedy Round, after weeks and months of trial and trouble, was not exactly a triumph of love, but it was certainly a tribute to perseverance...