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...furnished dramatic new evidence that Italy's famed 16th century Sculptor Cellini, best known for his bronze statuary, including the great Perseus still in Florence, and gold art objects, also did "great works in marble." Unveiled with a flourish was a 30-in. marble bust of Cosimo de Medici, Duke of Florence (1519-74), a rediscovery by De Young's Director Walter Heil.*It appeared to be Cellini's long-lost bid for fame as what he himself claimed he was, "the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo...
...bring Leonardo's The Last Supper, but it was impracticable to remove the mural from the wall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie), is responsible for starting the Italian collection. Four of his Da Vincis and six Raphaels are still in the Louvre. When Catherine de Medici, a generation later, erected her own palace on the site of an old tile factory, the Tuileries, more than a quarter-mile away, and suggested that the two palaces be joined, the "Great Design" for the Louvre was born...
Payoff. When new Treasury Minister Giuseppe Medici, 49, announced last year that the time had come to prune this octopus, Italians shrugged. But by last week the bearded Medici (who looks his name) could claim: "For the first time in Italy's modern history, the payrolls are going down instead of up." He has liquidated 50 bureaus (including one with 14,000 employees...
...month behind. He changed the rules so that fishermen can now get a license by producing only an identity card instead of a good-conduct certificate, a notarized proof of signature and a police reference showing no penal record. Between helicopter swoops on unsuspecting offices all over Italy, Medici proclaimed his goal: "Democracy will become a reality only when any citizen can write to any state functionary with the certainty of receiving a clear, quick, satisfactory reply...
...unique example of the harmony of three styles, separated in time by some 250 years. Dominating them all is the rough-stoned Palazzo Vecchio, with its narrow, Tuscan-Gothic windows. At right angles stands the triple-arched Loggia dei Lanzi (named for the German lancers quartered there by the Medici), which many critics consider the most beautiful secular building in Florence. Between the two is the short, narrow street which Mannerist Painter Giorgio di Vasari created as a tour de force in perspective, leading to the Arno...