Word: medici
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...French Academy there. He was 26, already known as a Parisian prodigy; he came to a town whose social and intellectual life seems to have struck him as a mere echo of what he had known in Napoleon's Paris. A few weeks after settling into the Villa Medici, he wrote to his fiancee in Paris, Julie Forestier: "I cordially loathe Rome ... it is very beautiful, but, in a few words, everything is provincial compared to the great city of Paris." Rome slowly seduced him. Soon afterward Mile. Forestier was reading that "I cannot come back to you before...
People's Pollock. Probably the best exponent of Italy's low-profile brand of Communism is Bologna's Mayor Renato Zangheri, a party "liberal," economist and intellectual who is regarded as something of a Marxist Medici even by nonCommunists. Since July, when he became the latest Red mayor of Bologna, Zangheri has insisted on keeping his University of Bologna professorship, on wearing his academic tweeds, and on making over much of the municipal government in his eclectic but thoughtful style. Among the 17th century frescoes in the Palazzo D'Accursio, he has hung a favorite Jackson...
Ersatz Election. Overwhelming problems still face President Emilio Garrastazii Medici, a former four-star general who was named President 14 months ago. Brazil's prosperity is benefiting mainly the upper 10% of the country's 90 million people. The more than one-third of Brazil's workers who are tied to the minimum wage (now $40 a month) have watched their real purchasing power shrink by about 50% over the last ten years. Then, too, Medici has yet to make good on his early talk of "free universities, free political parties, free unions and freedom...
Ruben's Life of Marie de Medici by Jacques Thuillair. 158 pages, plus 108 color pages. Abrams. $125. In 1622 history's richest and most lavish painter was retained by the vainest and most powerful woman in France to create an appropriate tribute to herself. The result -more than a score of enormous panels-now fills a whole room of the Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological...
...aside for the royal family on their ceremonial visits to Florence, thus meeting the heirs' condition that the works be displayed in a group, as if in a private home. The collection is the largest gift of art to a public museum in Italy since the vast Medici collections became state property 200 years...