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Napoleon III had a taste for ostentation. On the ceiling of his gilded reception room in the Louvre is a fresco of the goateed sovereign himself, sitting on his throne and surrounded by puffy clouds and horn-blowing cherubs. . Flying toward him are two figures brandishing architectural plans and a model of the royal palace. The painting commemorates the Emperor's 1852 decision to expand the edifice by adding a new north wing, named after Cardinal Richelieu, to house his private apartments and expanding bureaucracy...
...performers, especially Walken, Oldman and Saul Rubinek as the producer, do everything in big-mo. In its acting as well as its writing and direction, this is a live-action cartoon, a fantasy (and a sidewise critique) of machismo. It's a crimson fresco of smart people playing evil ones. The whole enterprise is noisy as hell, but you know it's there...
...Bacchanalian dances, from the ancient Greeks through to Poussin. The color is almost as simple and emblematic as that of an Etruscan vase: blue sky, green billowing earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching. One clue to this is the complicated knot formed by the crossing legs of the second figure from...
From Opening Exercises, the first-year classheads en masse to the Radcliffe Quad for agood old fashioned picnic--Harvard Dining Servicesal fresco, basically. Students are supposedto sit with their dormmates, but during the longmarch to the Quad, they tend to get separatedsomewhere between Johnston gate and the SheratonCommander Hotel. These kinds of things have a wayof happening on the way to the Quad...
After the initial shock, however, most randomized students seemed to take their unexpected plight in stride. "When my roomates first saw that we had gotten Adams, everyone sort of started blankly at the wall," Fresco said. "But by lunch they had gotten used to it. One had even changed into a black outfit...