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...Died. Fresco Thompson, 66, vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, who spent 46 years in the game as a player, manager, farm-system director and front-office executive; of uremic poisoning; in Fullerton, Calif...
...18th centuries delineated his ideas, often in considerable detail, and submitted them to a patron for approval. The dash and daring all too often vanished when he transferred his design to an immense ceiling or wall. One reason: the sketch was the work of the artist, while the fresco was sometimes completed with the aid of assistants...
...artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
Common to both these oil sketches is a genuineness of inspiration that has nothing to do with techniques. As Wittkower observes, the finished fresco had to be made solid and impressive with all its forms and symbols differentiated and understandable. Patrons expected such qualities. But in the preliminary sketch, the artist was working for the moment-and thus shares with the viewer the freshness and spontaneity of his initial vision...
While the Met's visiting exhibit does not-and cannot-include any of the near-legendary series of frescoes to which pilgrims trek, vignettes from major masters, together with larger pictures by significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips...