Word: masaccio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pleasing, well-lighted and rich in art, the new museum in its first year is drawing well over 1,000 visitors a day. Most distinguished: Florence's nonagenarian Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson, who summoned up strength to visit Capodimonte, stayed for more than half an hour before Masaccio's Crucifixion (high on "BB's" list of world masterpieces), then left, overwhelmed...
...Italy's Capodimonte National Museum (see color page), an 18th century palace outside Naples that was built for the Bourbon kings in 1738 and reopened only last year as a treasure-filled art museum-100 galleries lined with canvases by such old masters as Bruegel, Goya, Mantegna, Masaccio and Titian. In converting the palace, Naples' Art Director Bruno Molajoli faced not only the staggering task of cleaning and identifying some 600 stored paintings (including two Correggios found in a case marked "rubbish"), but also laying out a modern, well-lighted museum...
...feels that most moviegoers do not even want stimulation. "Take the average guy. He looks at a Giorgione, or a Bernini, or a Masaccio, and he says, 'Ehh!' He doesn't have anything in his own life to identify it with. The same with the movies; the guys only want the rubber-stamp product. Why, what happened when you got a picture done with true sensitivity, like The Quiet One [TIME, Jan. 31,1949]? That film died, Dick, it died . . . The moviegoers just don't want to have to reach...