Word: frescoes
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...have nothing to learn from the Dodgers," said the manager of the Mainichi Orions), the Dodgers finally got themselves untracked, clobbered the Kanto All-Stars 8-0 and 12-1, brought their touring record to four wins, two losses and a draw. Japanese ballplayers, admitted Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, "are somewhere between the Texas League and the Southern Association, and that is quite complimentary...
Last week in Milan's 13th century Church of San Marco a dedicated Milanese restorer, pretty Pinin Brambilla, 31, was finishing the task of uncovering an unsuspected fresco that tor its brilliant, fresh colors and bold, naturalistic drawing of the crucified Christ might well make even Critic Berenson eat his words...
First clue to the forgotten fresco's existence came to light when workmen moved the sarcophagus with the bones of the church's founder, discovered behind it bits of an old fresco on the wall. Restorer Brambilla, on hand to work on a later work by Fiammenghino, quickly turned her attention to the new find. Working meticulously with microscope and checking herself by photographing the work as she went along, she managed to uncover the fresco and preserve the color down to the last clinging dab of paint...
Milanese art historians, excited by the discovery, date it between 1370 and 1380, making it the only known 14th century fresco in Milan. Part of the fresco was destroyed in early attempts to restore it, but enough remains to set scholars wondering who the artist was. One hypothesis is that he might well be one Giovanni de Milano, born near Como, who came to Milan in the 1370-80 period and introduced a more realistic style with emphasis on details of robes and three-dimensionality...
...edge were giant-sized symbols of Mexico's people, their past oppressors and future hopes; beneath the water was an intricate pattern of teeming protoplasmic life. Rivera confidently predicted that his water-washed mural, Water, Origin of Life, painted with a mixture of plastic polystyrene in the fresco pigment, then varnished with transparent rubber, was good for 40 years at least...