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...seem to be getting more natural-even Henry Moore's recent lumps and holes look more like people. Finally, Ritchie shows statues by two Italians who have worked from the beginning in the tradition of Rodin: Marino Marini, who does spraddle-legged horses and dumpy riders, and Giacomo Manzu, whose warmly human Child on Chair, of a relaxed and innocently nude young girl, was one of the exhibit's highlights...
Speaking in Paine Hall, Ghisi will discuss "Italian Avs Nova Music" Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., and "Festivities and Shows in Florence During the Rennaissance" Wednesday at 8 p.m., Friday, October 10, also at 8 p.m., he will speak on "The Sacred Stories and Oratories of Giacomo Carissimi...
...Giacomo Puccini, whose operas probably earned him more money than any other serious composer ever made,* began by writing church music, including a Mass at the age of 21. Italian experts who heard his Mass performed in 1880 liked it pretty well. True, they felt it suffered a bit from "overabundance," and, at a time when the trend was to disembodied church music, they raised their eyebrows because some parts did not seem musically "chaste" enough. But they praised its "spontaneous melodies," predicted a fine future for its composer. Thereupon, the Mass fell into obscurity. It was not until last...
...weeks late. Despite the boycott and an abundance of mediocre canvases by what critics blasted as "pathetically stubborn anonymous youngsters" and "wall swallowers," there was still some topflight work among the 2,000 sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's latest neoclassical...
Italy's sculpture is in the midst of a postFascist renaissance. Milan boasts two sculptors good enough to rival any now living: Giacomo Manzú (TIME, Sept. 25) and Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). Rome has 37-year-old Pericle Fazzini, who is every bit as able. Last week Rome honored its own with a big Fazzini exhibition in the Barberini Palace...