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...excited to take this classic brand into the future and create a new, artist-centric, artist-friendly company driven by strong business principles," says Wagner, who likened their vision for UA to that of the Medici family's patronage of the arts during Italian Renaissance. In the works since early September, the UA deal has left Wagner and Cruise "completely open right now" to all varieties of film projects, Wagner told TIME, "ranging from high concept to smaller, character-driven films...
...house in Fort Lauderdale in the fall of 2004, she figured she would pocket a profit before the place was even finished. Schiller, 51, and her husband had already flipped several properties in Florida's sizzling market, and this one sounded sweet: three bedrooms, private elevator, designer appliances. Villa Medici, promised the builder, would be modeled after a "true Italian Tuscan village," featuring Mediterranean façades and a resort-style pool. "As with any 'limited edition,'" the pitch stressed, "demand always exceeds the supply...
PARIS—My first morning in Paris, I decided to start off on the right foot and take a jog through le Jardin du Luxembourg. This is a park created by Marie de’ Medici to remind her of her home in Italy, a park so strictly groomed that it reminded me nothing of my home in the wild New York woods. At dinner with my host family the night before, I had caught a glimpse of what lay ahead of me for the month of June. Having carefully considered the amounts of Camembert involved, I figured...
...British Museum until June 25. The drawings, taken from the museum's own collection and others in Oxford and the Netherlands, are displayed chronologically, next to small reproductions of the relevant finished works. Visitors can follow the artist's career as he followed the money, oscillating between patrons (the Medici family, Popes) in Florence and Rome. It's the first time the drawings have been seen together since the breakup of Michelangelo's studio in 1564, the year of his death at 88. Perhaps his most famous work, the vast Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco commissioned by Pope Julius...
...academy is the brainchild of Roberto Wirth, a passionate wine buff and owner of the luxe Hassler Villa Medici Hotel above Piazza di Spagna. Over an appropriately bibulous lunch with two friends?the wine writer Hugh Johnson and Steven Spurrier, founder of the Acad?mie du Vin in Paris (now closed) and Tokyo?Wirth realized "that there was nothing of this kind in Italy and it was the perfect moment and the perfect place to carry out such a project." He found the perfect property in the palazzetto, an abandoned four-story private mansion abutting the Spanish Steps with a second...