Word: lorenzetti
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...Burri decided to cut back on exhibiting new work; instead, he created La Fondazione Albizzini to house and promote many of his favorites in his beloved hometown. Locally, it has been reason to celebrate. "Burri's artworks represent Umbria in its deepest and most intimate nature," says Maria Rita Lorenzetti, president of the Umbria region. However, Burri's wife did not share her husband's affection for Città di Castello. After the artist's death, she tried to gain control of all of Burri's works. But in 1998, Italian courts ruled in favor of Albizzini as the guardian...
...political or cultural patronage, it was to Lorenzo de' Medici, prototype of city bosses, that they turned. Siena seemed less Promethean, less inventive. Its great moment in painting, by common consent, had come in the late 13th and 14th centuries, with the work of Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers. Then social and economic catastrophe struck in 1348, when the Black Death wiped out more than half its population. While it is true that Sienese painting and sculpture for the next 150 years did not have the extraordinary charge of radical invention that pervaded Florence, the idea of Sienese...
...know, made its mark on some painters but not others. Perspective in 15th century Siena was something an artist could use as a scaffolding, modify or abandon altogether; Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni, active from 1423 to 1450) did this all the time. He studied earlier Sienese artists, mainly Pietro Lorenzetti, for spatial clues as carefully as Masaccio looked at Giotto, and inevitably, came up with a lighter, slightly flatter and, as it were, more spindly and papery space -- which he still imbued with a magical lightness and precision...
While the Finance Minister did not criticize U.S. lenders, many Brazilians did. Said Senator Severo Gomes, a member of the ruling party: "There can be no attitude of flexibility toward the banks." Said Aldo Lorenzetti, a Sao Paulo-based businessman: "Each side is baring its teeth and sharpening its claws to get the best possible result in the negotiations...
...bureaucratic procedure. A $400 million emergency fund for the restoration of Venice, raised abroad by Minister of Public Works Mario Ferrari Aggradi, lies unused while dozens of local and national agencies squabble over their slices of it. Another example: the frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Holy See, the basilica and convent of Assisi were to be given back to the Vatican. But the Holy See refused to accept them unless the buildings and their irreplaceable frescoes were wholly restored...