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...current version of the play, meanwhile, is itself a kind of translation: Magid says “Life” was first written in the tongue of Michelangelo and the Medicis...
DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, cinematographer and maestro of movie lighting; in Rome. Working with director Michelangelo Antonioni, he obliterated the palette of realism by painting the grass yellow in The Red Desert and greener than green in Blow-Up, creating two of the most influential color films. In the mid-'80s, he ushered Woody Allen into a visually rich period with subtle lighting in such films as Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters...
...DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, Italian cinematographer; in his native Rome. Known for his innovative use of color and light, Di Palma made his reputation with Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert and Blow Up, and later collaborated with Woody Allen on 11 movies, including Hannah and her Sisters...
...CLEANED. Michelangelo's DAVID; in preparation for its 500th birthday celebration later this year; in Florence. The five-meter-tall marble nude had not received a thorough cleansing in more than a century. Despite worries that the process could damage the masterpiece, the restoration team insists David is "the same as ever...
...leading figure in the Young British Artists' movement - the most promising young artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale, a Turner Prize nominee in 1998, and the youngest artist to be 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...