Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These trips were, for him, pilgrimages to the shrines he had worshipped in his life. During his last years, he to Ravenna, to Leptis the Greek runins in Agrigentum, the treasures of Florence's Uffiz and Borghese Gallery in Rome. He saw the works that he claimed had balanced his life and could others...
Within this philosophy of the function of art. B.B. proved himself extraordinarily receptive to works other than those of the Italian Renaissance. Classic architecture, both Greek and Roman, Byzantine mosaic and Medieval sculpture all provide him with "life-enhancing" works, works which he could return again and agin--with, it seems, unending pleasure...
...believe art lurked only in crannies of museums and churches. B.B., even in his old age, went through difficult Sicilian roads to get to a Greek temple. He travelled in Calbria, to North Africa, to minor Sicilian villages...
Revenue agents caught wind of the cargo from customs men, began to snoop around the admiral's Marin County home. Armed with a search warrant, they raided a locked room behind the admiral's bar, found 816 bottles ranging from rare old Scotch to rich liqueurs and Greek brandy. Erdmann had paid $760 for the entire supply; Treasury agents said it was worth $4,400 retail...
...Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The late great Greek writer saw God as the search for God. Temptation is his soaring, shocking final vision of that search...