Word: michelangelo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night next to the museum's west wing. The fireball and blast killed five people, destroyed museum archives and an important library near the Uffizi, weakened some of its ancient structure, and destroyed or damaged a number of works of art. Luckily, none of them were Botticellis, Michelangelos, Leonardos or Titians. Paintings by 17th century followers of Caravaggio (two by Bartolommeo Manfredi and one by the Dutch artist Gerrit van Honthorst) were totally destroyed, and several others, including an important work by the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo, were shredded by flying glass. No doubt the terrorists, whoever they were...
Since World War II, art vandalism has been relatively rare, and always (so to speak) personal. When a deranged Hungarian-Australian tourist named Laszlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's with a hammer in 1972, it was because he believed himself to be the son of God. When the future art dealer Tony Shafrazi vandalized Picasso's Guernica in the Museum of Modern Art in 1974, he moronically fancied he was making a point about art politics...
...goddess Venus notes: "I think if Michelangelo were straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white with a roller...
...AUTHOR: MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE...
Nonetheless, Shilts' opus will be around much longer than Michelangelo Signorile's Queer in America. The deterioration begins in the first lines of the introduction. "There exists in America what appears to be a brilliantly orchestrated, massive conspiracy to keep all homosexuals locked in the closet." Four lines later, Signorile's great conspiracy is "a relatively unconscious one, ingrained as it is in our culture...