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VIRTUALLY none of the masterworks from one of the greatest eras of painting have ever been shown in the U.S. or anywhere else outside their native land. These are the fresco paintings of Italy, some of the transcendent achievements of the Italian Renaissance. For centuries, art lovers have had to admire them by reputation and reproduction. To see them firsthand required a trip to Italy. Before oil painting was imported from Northern Europe and the artist's vision shrank to the size of canvases that could be moved from wall to wall, the greatest Gothic and Renaissance artists decorated...
Hidden Sketches. Detaching a fresco from its wall is a process that has only been perfected in the past decade. In essence, it requires that a piece of canvas be glued temporarily to the face of the fresco. Then the canvas and the attached mural surface are gently peeled off together. The back of the fresco is then remounted on a panel, and the canvas protecting its front is removed. It is a delicate operation, and until Masonite and Fiberglas came along, no backing could be found that did not sag, warp, wrinkle or crack...
Leonine Shepherd. "These drawings are often surprisingly modern," observes Claus Virch, the Met's curator of European painting. "There is an expressiveness to them not found in the fresco." In some cases, a comparison of the sinopia with the fresco has revealed surprising differences. The sinopia beneath Andrea del Castagno's muscular St. Jerome [on this page and opposite] is no more like the finished fresco than the youthful Dorian Gray was like his aging portrait. The sinopia shows a handsome young man; the fresco, a gnarled and suffering ascetic. The difference is so striking that Princeton...
...Fresco Toast. Johnson's money troubles with Congress are hardly unique. Practically every President with an ambitious, expensive program has encountered stiff resistance on Capitol
...Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point. "Don't worry about the polls," he said at another. The two toasted each other in Fresca, which Johnson calls "Fresco," then posed for photos, which were sped across the nation to show there are still those who go all the way with L.B.J...