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...identified with any single role, but ranging between the romantic bel canto flights of Lucia di Lammermoor and the more declamatory style of Turandot or La Fanciulla del West, he has created some memorable characterizations: Don Jose in Carmen, Rodolfo in La Boheme, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto...
...gilded works, the mood is often different. In his Apollo Belvedere, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), the best of the bronze sculptors at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, produced a figure of almost stylized grace. The Homage to Sculpture is blatantly-though magnificently-contrived. Bernini's 6-in. masks seem at first glance to be pure theater, yet they provide a kind of climax to the show. The Renaissance master, having unlocked the classic secrets of the human face and figure, could now take liberties with nature. It is Bernini's triumph that the masks are mood rather...
...middle of the 15th century, few cities in Christendom bustled with such prosperity as Mantua, and few princelings patronized the arts so diligently as the Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. His court painter was Andrea Mantegna. and the walls and ceilings of his grim Gothic castle boasted some of the master's finest work. This week, in that same castle, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi opens an exhibition that should restore...
...Mantua some of the glory it knew 500 years ago. Of the 70 known Mantegna paintings scattered over the world, 45 have been brought together for the biggest Mantegna show ever held...
...Mantegna was a pivotal figure in the art of northern Italy, but his influence spread beyond. Rembrandt for a time used his work as a model, and in the month of September 1506. Albrecht Diirer set out for Mantua just to meet him. Diirer was too late. Before he ar rived, the old master of Mantua died of apoplexy...