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...sepulchral chamber hidden beneath Florence's Medici Chapel, accessible only through a trap door and a winding staircase, Sabino Giovannoni scraped away at the accumulated layers of soot, grime and whitewash. Slowly, almost reluctantly, the face of a woman began to emerge, a primeval woman who looked remarkably like the Eve in the Sistine Chapel. After several hours, Giovannoni telephoned Medici Chapels Director Paolo dal Poggetto. "Come over quickly," he said. "We've got something important here...
...found partly by accident. For years, Dal Poggetto and his colleagues have been worrying about the crowds of tourists-sometimes 4,000 a day-who come swarming into the chapel to see the seven brooding marble statues that Michelangelo carved to commemorate the Dukes Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici. There is only one door for the tourists to enter and leave the chapel by way of the crypt...
...looks curiously wistful. Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave was the first internationally famous work of art produced by an American; when it toured the U.S. in 1847 it created a sensation and people queued to see it. Yet today, as one gazes on this chaste pastiche of the Medici Venus, it seems more an anthropological document and less a work of art than most Alaskan carvings. The problem, of course, is not that neoclassicism is remote from us but that the American version of it was unimpressive...
Marino de Medici, an Italian journalist and one of Lange's opponents in the debate, said last night he doubts whether NATO could survive in its present form if the communists gained more power in the Italian government...
Rosellini's Age of the Medici: Leon Battista Alberti: Humanism, with a Harold Lloyd short, Sunday...