Word: michelangelo
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...masterpiece. Its lack of explanations and jumble of diagrams left non-technical gallerygoers wondering what most of it meant. But for those who could tell a cantilever from a truss, it recorded as exciting a body of architectural thinking as has come from the brain of anyone since Michelangelo. Regarded by many as the greatest architect of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright is conceded even by skeptics to have one of the most restless and imaginative minds the art of architecture has ever known. Architect Wright began designing functional buildings in 1893, fathered the whole international modern architecture movement...
...several casts of it are in U. S. museums. The statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself said the statue looked like a sack of melons...
...Pope seem partly a revulsion from those articles he opened with a bang. At any rate they show what he, whom Henry James befriended long ago, can do when he tries. In between ceremonies he visits the Papal Observatory, Castel Gandolfo and the grave of Keats, muses about Michelangelo. The scarcely-hoped-for election of Cardinal Pacelli, that saintly cleric, assures him that a spiritual fountain is still there...
...spent his cadgings bottomlessly on himself, on poor people, and on the women and artist bums who swarmed his house. He tirelessly promoted his friend Titian; managed, by two extraordinary letters, to scare Francis I out of an alliance with Turkey; quarreled with everyone from his own secretaries to Michelangelo...
...first time, Chicago will see sculpture of Michelangelo in the original (a bas-relief Madonna and Child), Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Mantegna's St. George, Raphael's Madonna and the Chair. Despite official denials, it is fairly obvious that Italy's masterpieces will tour the U. S. until World War II blows over. In explaining why the show was given to Chicago rather than New York City, suave Prince Colonna observed that the latter was "too near...