Word: medici
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572. At the time, religious differences threatened the stability of the French kingdom; the Catholic crown and the French Protestants, known as Huguenots, were at each other's throats. In an effort to effect a reconciliation, the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, arranged a marriage between her daughter Margot and the Protestant Henri of Navarre. The peace that the marriage was to bring about did not last; six days after the wedding, Catholics slaughtered 3,000 Huguenots in Paris and 20,000 more in the countryside...
...gets a wonderful death scene where he literally sweats blood. Vincent Perez has precious little to do besides being precious and using his melting pulchritude to best advantage. Virna Lisi, who took the acting prize at Cannes, gives the best performance in the movie. Her take on Catherine de Medici moves between the campy and the affecting. Those who speak French may have to fight the temptation to imitate her thick Italian accent. Playing Catherine de Medici as a cross between a mafia boss and an overprotective mother, Lisi makes her the only three-dimensional character in the movie...
...instead of a lecture on the Medici dynasty or the War of the Roses, she found the professor using drawings of human genitalia to show that body image is a changing historical construct...
...tapestries, sculpture and architecture. His diverse genres include portraits, landscapes, still-lives and allegorical and mythological themes. A man of engaging personality, he spoke five languages and enjoyed the commissions and friendships of many European monarchs, including Philip IV of Spain, James I of England, and Marie de Medici of France (unfortunately, his spectacular Medici cycle of paintings cannot travel from the Louvre in Paris...
...Albert Barnes, a Philadelphia physician who made millions from an antiseptic he invented and marketed in 1901, had a Medici-like eye for art. But his taste shocked the blue bloods of his day, who scorned him -- and earned his unrelenting enmity in return. At his death in 1951, he directed that no picture from his collection could be loaned, sold, reproduced or even moved from its position on the wall. Future control of the foundation, he decreed, would be in the hands of trustees appointed by Lincoln University, a small black college in Lincoln University, Pa. Since then, alumni...