Word: lionello
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...Moses Lionello, the village priest, had organized the procession. Like other processions throughout Italy last week on "Children's Sunday," it was intended to rally resistance against the Communist Party's youth drive. Grave, grey Don Moses walked backwards at the head of the column, leading the singing of Oh Mary, How Beautiful Thou Art. Facing him were 150 little girls in dresses of white tulle with long white veils, and 200 other children in their best Sunday clothes, all from the village of Boscochiaro near Venice. Pretty five-year-old Ivana Pirollo clutched a bouquet of flowers...
...effort. The trouble is really in the damp wall, they insist, and not in the air. They contend that the mural, which is painted directly on the plaster of the wall, must be peeled off somehow and pasted to a dry one. Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they will not dare touch it. And by trying to preserve the sacred thing, they...
...church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose (see cut), a smoldering, libidinous canvas of a young woman en déshabillé, described in the Crowninshield catalog by Critic Lionello Venturi as a matter of "fascinating nacreous nuances." A Rouault-illustrated book brought...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...
...sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally, he is primarily interested. He rather resents the academic habit which separates past and present and ignores their reciprocal relationship. He wants taste in the present tense, in the sense implied by Lionello Venturl's remark, "the history of criticism teaches that the critic has need of a present taste to direct his judgment even upon past art . . . the intuitive consciousness of art in the making that is to say, contemporary...