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...critics said one thing, the collectors said another, and this time the collectors were right. Caravaggio found influential patrons almost as soon as he arrived in Rome in 1592-93; they included Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who owned eight of his paintings, and Vincenzo Giustiniani, who had 13. The Caravaggian cave of darkness was not invented yet. His early work tends to be bathed in a crisp, even, impartial light, recalling Lorenzo Lotto and (more distantly) Giorgione. Typical of this manner were The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, which is not in the show, and the Metropolitan...
...company was hard pressed to pay its debts and, to make matters worse, the cost of building its new petrochemical plant at Brindisi on Italy's heel overran its $160 million estimate by almost 50%. The setback was enough to topple fast-running Managing Director Piero Giustiniani, the driving force behind Montecatini's expansion, and leave full command in the hands of the more conservative chairman, Count Carlo Faina, 69. Faina, a papal count who claims direct descent from Napoleon, guided Montecatini in the early postwar years, but had turned technical direction over to Giustiniani. After failing...
...restless force that has steered Montecatini, Italy's giant chemical company, away from minerals and into a worldwide petrochemical operation is supplied by its big (200 Ibs.), back-thumping managing director, Piero Giustiniani, 61. Last week, to expand its toehold in the U.S. chemical market, Montecatini bought for an estimated $5.7 million a 4% interest in New Jersey's Minerals and Chemicals-Philipp Corp. As part of the deal-which is designed to produce transatlantic cooperation in mining, manufacturing and merchandising-Giustiniani got a seat on the Minerals and Chemicals board. Somewhat ruefully, Italian colleagues predict that American...
...rule for a U.S.-style line-and-staff system, authorized plant managers to run the works on the spot, set up executive committees in Milan to supervise the major decisions and divisions. On the technical side he held a lighter rein, giving considerable scope to Engineer Perio Giustiniani. a fellow Tuscan who has served with Faina as co-president since...
...eight: The Tempest, Female Nude, Three Philosophers, the Giustiniani Portrait, the Enthroned Madonna from the Duomo of Castelfranco, Laura, Tramonto, and the Louvre's Country Feast (TIME...