Word: medici
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most important, Frey was beginning to find that in the upper ranks of an increasingly centralized management, corporate life did not have quite the kick he found when he was running the Ford division more or less singlehanded. Something of a Medici of management, Frey reads Russian and French as well as Ward's Automotive Reports, used to revel in running all phases of sales, down to seeing that such personal notions as stereo-tape systems and two-way station wagon doors were included among the "better ideas"-as the slogan calls them-in his cars...
...inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works during a four-week stay). The festival committee is chaired by the Albright-Knox's director, Gordon Smith, 61, and the residual deficit will doubtless be met by the gallery's longtime Medici, former seven-goal polo player and investment banker Seymour ("Shorty") Knox, 69, who paid $100,000 to underwrite the first festival, an S.R.O. attraction that in 1965 drew 187,000 visitors...
Successful Technique. Usually, the best way to land a donor is by appealing to his desire for intellectual distinction. As Columbia College Publications Editor George Keller puts it: "You can feel almost like a Medici prince-personally responsible for a distinguished professor's livelihood and scholarship." One successful technique is that used by California's tiny Claremont Men's College, which has set up ten endowed professorships since 1958. "The best way to do it is to take the great teacher who will occupy the chair to meet the prospective donor," contends Claremont Presidential Assistant John Payne...
Great patrons like the Medici, the Catholic Church, and the French monarchs, had no counter-part in the Netherlands, and hence almost no monumental works were commissioned. But unlike anywhere else in Europe, the popularity of art among Dutch artisans and merchants supported a large number of artists producing small works in great abundance and variety. Englishman Peter Mundy, visiting Amsterdam in 1640, wrote...
...from a 14¼-in. by 15-in. Fra Angelico (Flight Into Egypt) to a 57-ft. by 15-ft. The Journey of the Magi, one of the great treasures of the Italian Renaissance, painted in the 15th century by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Chapel. Other masterworks in the show include Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Botticelli's Madonna Magnificat, El Greco's Virgin with St. Ines and St. Tecla, and Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds...