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Director Alberto Lattuada's actors are a gallery of perfectly chosen faces leering ever so faintly from a 16th century fresco. Dressed and undressed in sumptuous Renaissance style, or hatching intrigues among the cobblestones of two ancient Umbrian villages where the action was filmed, they look comfortably removed to another time. With a lusty feel for the broad, vulgar humor of the period, Lattuada adds a delectable scene at the public baths, where gentlemen voyeurs and unsuspecting ladies are suddenly desegregated by a collapsing wall. Making a new movie from an old play can easily bring both to ruin...
...similar to that in Mexico. F.D.R. was interested, but, he cautioned Biddle, he did not want "a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin's head on the Justice Building." Nonetheless, many of the program's finest murals contained notes of social protest. Even Biddle titled his own fresco for the Justice Building The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow...
...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...