Word: medici
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chase-Manhattan's example has encouraged scores of other corporations to embark on ventures into artistic patronage. As a corporate Medici, Rockefeller sincerely considers the art that he buys not only a handy way to win investors or project a good image, but also a "notable source of pleasure and inspiration." Executives can select any kind of work they want in their offices (and happy executives are presumably better executives), but all acquisitions are approved by a committee of museum experts. Generally speaking, paintings tend to be by younger lesser-knowns, graphics by elder reliables (Picasso, Albers, Currier & Ives...
...this seems unhappily reminiscent not only of the Dark Ages but of what Sir Harold Nicolson called the "wolflike habits" of the Italian Renaissance, when Niccolo Machiavelli lectured Medici princes on the judicious use of power and perfidy. In those days, diplomats were regarded as no better than spies. An envoy's status abroad, in fact, was hardly assured until the Congress of Vienna established a European balance of power in 1815. The relative stability that followed, as Henry Kissinger pointed out in his 1957 book, A World Restored, "resulted not from a quest for peace but from...
French politicians were suspicious of Pompidou's timing since Pompidou had had a long meeting with De Gaulle before he departed for Rome. "He should have visited Florence instead of Rome," growled one Gaullist deputy, implying that his colleague was acting like an intriguing Medici. Pompidou, who made the announcement over drinks with newsmen at the French embassy, insisted that he had spoken only out of gallantry. A lady had asked the question, he said; had a man asked, he would have been more brusque. Returning to Paris, Pompon, as Frenchmen have nicknamed him, toned down his Roman remarks...
Like many another women's fashion designer, Scott is turning his attention increasingly to men's clothes. His vibrant, eye-popping print shirts at $55 each are only a beginning-he hopes. "The Medici, who invented banking, wore glorious colors," says Scott. "So why shouldn't your banker today dress in red velvet...
...Conte and Vasari. At the moment, the museum displays it as attributed to Tosini, but no one is sure. Everyone agrees, however, that knowing who is portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could be a posthumous portrait of Lorenzino de' Medici, an unhappy Florentine noble who killed Alessandro de' Medici and fled to Venice for refuge, only to be murdered by Alessandro's successor...