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Successful Technique. Usually, the best way to land a donor is by appealing to his desire for intellectual distinction. As Columbia College Publications Editor George Keller puts it: "You can feel almost like a Medici prince-personally responsible for a distinguished professor's livelihood and scholarship." One successful technique is that used by California's tiny Claremont Men's College, which has set up ten endowed professorships since 1958. "The best way to do it is to take the great teacher who will occupy the chair to meet the prospective donor," contends Claremont Presidential Assistant John Payne...
Great patrons like the Medici, the Catholic Church, and the French monarchs, had no counter-part in the Netherlands, and hence almost no monumental works were commissioned. But unlike anywhere else in Europe, the popularity of art among Dutch artisans and merchants supported a large number of artists producing small works in great abundance and variety. Englishman Peter Mundy, visiting Amsterdam in 1640, wrote...
...from a 14¼-in. by 15-in. Fra Angelico (Flight Into Egypt) to a 57-ft. by 15-ft. The Journey of the Magi, one of the great treasures of the Italian Renaissance, painted in the 15th century by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Chapel. Other masterworks in the show include Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Botticelli's Madonna Magnificat, El Greco's Virgin with St. Ines and St. Tecla, and Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds...
...sculpture as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, a Calder stabile, and Bauhaus-Teacher Gerhard Marcks's Three Graces were set out against the background of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Many of the works came from private St. Louis collections. If the city lives up to its Medici potential, many will soon become public, playing their role in plazas and malls...
...around them. "I planned a ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative tête-à-têtes with a fervent Contessina de Medici (Diane Cilento). The noblewoman presumably deduces his impotence when he tells her that God has compelled him to substitute the love of art for the art of love. "Love," she concludes, "is either agony or ecstasy-sometimes both at once...