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...posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called. She has dyed her chestnut hair blonde like Evita's, she wears a silver mink coat like Evita's, she is making good-will tours like Evita's. But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters...
Three Eyes. A curiosity of this process, kept on view in the laboratories as a sort of talisman, is an 18th century Madonna which, on patch cleaning, turned out to have a 17th century version under it. When that in turn was tested, the restorers found a 13th century Madonna by the so-called "Master of the Magdalens" beneath. The final palimpsest, a Virgin with three eyes, two noses and a pair of bambini (see opposite, lower right), was playfully christened "Picasso's Madonna...
Another $153 million has been set aside for restoration of the city's houses and monuments. Up to now, most preservation has been done by private organizations, many of them international. The British have refurbished the magnificent church of the Madonna dell'Orto; the French fixed up the church of Santa Maria della Salute; the Americans, the façade of the Cà d'Oro. Still, the job is far from finished; about another 200 palazzi, churches and buildings remain to be rescued. That badly needed work will soon start, when Italy at last moves...
Almost a year has passed since a deranged Hungarian-born Australian named Lászlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pietà in its chapel at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. With 15 hammer blows Toth knocked off the Madonna's left forearm, dented her veil, smashed her nose and chipped her left cheek (left...
...incomparable work has been happily restored," Pope Paul VI declared proudly last week as he unveiled the Pieta to the public once more (center). A 15-ft. wall of nonglare, bulletproof glass now shields the Madonna from her admirers. But behind the glass, insists one Vatican official, is a masterpiece that is "still the work of Michelangelo, not of the restorers...