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...other heads of state attending the summit are: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, French President Francois Mitterand,Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, ItalianPrime Minister Giulio Andreotti and President ofthe European Economic Community Jacques Delors...
...days before the vote, however, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti announced that owing to the very environmental concerns voiced by the critics, he was withdrawing the candidacy of the city of canals. With La Serenissima out of the running, Hannover was the committee's final choice...
...Room of Psyche, the physical effervescence and the characters of the picnicking gods are set forth as explicitly as in a Roman pantomime, and one can easily see why Giulio had such an influence on Rubens and Poussin. Lusting, half-tipsy, bare bottomed and prone to fits of hilarity and rage, Giulio's Olympians cavort and cuckold one another across the walls to the accompaniment of all manner of phallic puns. When sword-brandishing Mars is seen pursuing Adonis, whom he has just caught in flagrante with his wife Venus, even the antique statues in the background display their truncated...
...course the most popular thing in Palazzo Te, now as then, is the Room of the Giants, where Giulio (whose taste for apocalyptic catastrophe may have been sparked by talking to Leonardo in Rome) painted Ovid's story of the gods' revenge on the rebellious earth giants. These bearded, stumbling palookas in their peasants' breeches, crushed by the fall of rocks and masonry, are done with literally colossal gusto. The whole windowless chamber seems ready, for a moment, to totter and fall on your head. No room in Italy gives you a clearer sense of the mannerist delight in bizarre...
...prolific, licentious genius of Giulio Romano...