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Here, as in Padre Padrone and The Night of the Shooting Stars, the Tavianis' style is surrealism made simple. Their fantastic fables are filtered through a peasant ruggedness; their images are as clear as a Giotto fresco; the actors find precision in the volcanic gestures of Italian opera. In one scene, Batà sits alone in the town square to confess the origin of his ailment, and a flashback shows the infant Batà in a field at night, his huge eyes transfixed by the harlot moon. No minimalist torpor for the Tavianis--every frame is over...
...Giotto spacecraft and Halley's comet raced toward each other last week at a closing speed of 155,000 m.p.h., the tension at the European Space Agency's control center in Darmstadt, West Germany, became palpable. Images of the cornet, relayed to the center at intervals of four seconds, loomed larger and larger on television screens, finally yielding by far the best look yet at an elongated shape near Halley's heart. It was the comet's nucleus. Giotto Investigator Wolfgang Schmidt, giving a play-by-play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that...
...trained in Europe in the 1950s, and never became part of the abstract or conceptual art movements, instead sticking to the voluminous figurative style he formed in his 20s. Botero says he first became fascinated with "bolometric" shapes while living in Florence in 1953, inspired by Old Masters like Giotto and Botticelli: "I saw that volume gives a sensuality to painting. People say, 'When are you going to do something different?' I say, maybe never. The day I change my convictions is the day I'll do something different. You have to be strong to just follow your convictions...
...SCROVEGNI CHAPEL A painstaking renovation has restored Giotto?s frescoes to their former glory. With paintings depicting scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ, this early Renaissance masterpiece is a mini Sistine Chapel. Entrance at Piazza Eremitani. Open daily, 9:00-19:00; tickets 311. Reservations necessary: +39 (0) 49 201 0020, or online at www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it...
...down the road lies the Prato della Valle, the so-called field with no grass that's now a vast piazza of fountains and statues. Think Place de la Concorde with a little more decor, minus the dizzying traffic. No one should skip the Scrovegni Chapel, the recently restored Giotto masterpiece. Make reservations ahead of time. In Padua, as in all of Italy, the preferred pastime is people-watching and caffeinating. There is no better temple to both than the elegant Caffè Pedrocchi, famously "doorless" because it operated without closing from its opening in 1831 until World...