Word: medici
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculpture as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, a Calder stabile, and Bauhaus-Teacher Gerhard Marcks's Three Graces were set out against the background of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Many of the works came from private St. Louis collections. If the city lives up to its Medici potential, many will soon become public, playing their role in plazas and malls...
...Agony and the Ecstasy opens with a prologue celebrating the magnificence of Michelangelo Buonarroti's most famous sculptures: the David, Moses, the Pieta, Bacchus, the Medici tomb figures. It makes a splendid beginning. And even for the shrewdest caterers to popular taste, an act like Michelangelo's is hard to follow. What does follow in this solemn, princely spectacle -drawn by Director Carol Reed and Scenarist Philip Dunne from Irving Stone's low-to-middlebrow biography-shows every evidence of great effort, but the achievements are spotty...
...around them. "I planned a ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative tête-à-têtes with a fervent Contessina de Medici (Diane Cilento). The noblewoman presumably deduces his impotence when he tells her that God has compelled him to substitute the love of art for the art of love. "Love," she concludes, "is either agony or ecstasy-sometimes both at once...
...finance visits by great artists to U.S. schools, and subsidize community symphonies, repertory companies and art workshops. In effect, the bill establishes the U.S. Government as one of the biggest patrons of the arts any where - and makes Lyndon Johnson, unlikely as it may seem, a kind of modern Medici...
Best of show in Rome went to the collection of Princess Irene Galitzine, who is married to a Medici and descended from a 13th century Lithuanian king. Galitzine had a thing about spirals. Everything from bikinis to ball gowns swirled their way up and down the figure. The bias that really biased the crowd was a black, silk, matelasse evening dress-the high halter neck in front dropped to a dangerous curve at a point slightly northwest of the coccyx. Lest any man not notice-which seems hardly likely-there is a big shiny bauble planted at the perigee...