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...given a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. Although the title of her Beckham portrait winks at Michelangelo's most famous sculpture, she says her inspiration was another of his sculptures, Night, a curiously muscular, semiclad woman carved in the 1520s for the crypt of Giuliano de' Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Gazing at David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form of the poet John Giorno, coupled, perhaps, with the rich hues and dark settings...
...more than the latest spring fashions. Renovations for the new MaxMara boutique, housed in the 15th century Palazzo Corsi, uncovered a series of elaborate frescoes dating to the 1590s. They are believed to be the creation of well-known 16th century artist Agostino Ciampelli, who worked for the powerful Medici family. MaxMara has also maintained decorations from the 19th century as well as the original bookshelves from the famous bookstore that had occupied the building for more than 100 years...
...original investors who helped finance the French Laundry, Keller is more a rare creative talent who needs to be nurtured--a Michelangelo in the Medici court--than an opportunity to squeeze ever higher returns out of their investment. "It is not about maximizing profit," says Joe Wender, an advisory director with Goldman Sachs in New York City who recently moved to Napa and sits on Keller's council. "Moving to New York is one of the most high-risk things he could do. It is Thomas saying, 'I want to create something great and unique in the New York market...
...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...
...opening night for the Visiting Director’s Project Lorenzaccio, directed by Jay Scheib. Paul Schmidt’s translation of the Alfred de Musset play is a steamy depiction of 1530s Medici Florence. Through Nov. 22. 8 p.m. Tickets $12; $ 8 students and seniors. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...