Word: giovanni
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Many of the people who swarmed through Turin's Civic Gallery of Modern Art last week brought magnifying glasses with them, for every detail in every etching and drawing in the show demanded the closest scrutiny. To the rest of the world, the works of Engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi are a familiar staple; his Views of Rome sometimes show up on the walls of U.S. dentists' waiting rooms. But to Italians he has always been an "artist for export"-an attitude that Professor Ferdinando Salamon, who helped put the Turin show together, blames on "a southern country...
...Smaller Kress collections have gone to 18 other museums in the U.S., and last week all of these had some of their treasures on display at the National Gallery in honor of the program. It was a dazzling show, the quality of which can be measured by the brooding Giovanni Bellini from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City (see color). In further commemoration, the Phaidon Press has published a handsome book on the Kress Collection with text by Professor Charles Seymour Jr. of Yale (Art Treasures for America; $12.50). It is the curtain raiser...
Hypnotic God. One of Donatello's greatest successors was Antonio del Pollajuolo, whom Lorenzo de Medici called "the principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...
Millionaire Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni finally had a feather in his cap that wasn't macaroni. Achieving the "fondest dream" of his 70 years, would-be Basso Profundo Buitoni hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and packed it with friends and employees from his Hackensack, N.J., headquarters to make a rafter-rattling concert debut. Belting out arias from Rigoletto and Ernani, the Italian-born industrialist brought the momentous evening to a wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying...
...warm and as opulent as any in opera; her handling of it is a wonder of intelligence sharpened by instinct. No singer, not even Callas, has a more acute dramatic sense, as Soprano Price has demonstrated in her definitive portrayals of Aïda, Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into this part," said Price buoyantly, "and swing it around.") The reason, perhaps, is that the girl from Laurel, Miss., can dream her way into the heart of a role as only...