Word: medici
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Léon Blum, who rooms in Marie de Medici's Palace of the Luxemburg and pays rent in proportion to the amount of furniture he uses, attended to a personal matter before he departed for the U.S. to ask a $2,500,000,000 loan. He asked the French Government, please, to take away some of the furniture...
...Pepsi-Cola's President Walter S. Mack Jr. has not been a happy man. Try as he did to stay behind the curtains and let a group of painters run the show, painters and critics alike seemed inclined to gang up on him as a soda-pop Medici, a bumbling Borgia (TIME...
...photographer] refrained from comment on her streamlined figure, which is neither Canadian nor classic." Then, presumably as the classic, you give us the measurements of Venus de Milo. It is not Venus de Milo who is regarded by classicists as having the classic figure. It is Venus de' Medici...
Berlin was realistic. It formally announced that Florence, home of the Medici, birthplace of Dante, storehouse of some of the finest art in the world, was an open city. General Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander in chief, was quietly optimistic. Said he: "I think I can hear the bell ringing for the last...
...Raphael's famed portrait of the powerful, crafty Florentine ruler, Giuliano de' Medici. This somber classic Italian Renaissance masterpiece disappeared for three centuries, was rediscovered in Florence in 1867, was sold to the Russian Imperial family, cost Collector Bache...