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...barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies - there was nothing that Cosimo's artists did not show Cosimo doing for Florence...
Besides, it is not always so far from realism. Witness the sublime painting (circa 1616-18) by Cristofano Allori of Judith, attended by her nurse, holding the decapitated head of her would-be rapist Holofernes. (The model for Holofernes was Allori himself; for Judith, his real-life lover, known as La Mazzafirra). Far from being etiolated or artificial, it is almost as realist as a Caravaggio, though much classier in the opulence of Judith's robes...
Maats: Yes, it is. It’s a power word, a mix between embodies and personifies. She’s had staying power, which is a good thing in an actress and a lover...
...Hong Kong movie lover, seeing these movies fresh is like opening the treasure chest of Atlantis. First of all, they look great. The colors?glorious golds, bold reds?reveal all the splendor Shaw's set designers and costumers could contrive, though they worked on budgets a fraction of Hollywood's. The wide-screen format, even on a TV screen, restores each film to its original epic dimensions. We are reminded that Chang Cheh's macho melodramas were not just an anthology of fight scenes; they were sumptuous slices of Chinese history, rendered in loving period detail...
...preparing to go onstage: the camera zeroes in on their hands, as Martin coolly downs a Scotch and Lewis fusses with his props. From their first meeting in 1945 through their heyday in the 1950s, Martin and Lewis shows how they fused opposite stereotypes--the smoky Italian lover and the nervous, nasal Jewish kid--into a sex-and-yuks act more successful than either had been separately. In fact, the pairing of needy Jerry and detached Dean wasn't quite amore, but it was good business...