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...DIED. DAVID HEMMINGS, 62, British actor best remembered for playing a swinging photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classic Blowup; while filming a movie in Romania. In the 1980s, Hemmings turned to directing TV shows before he returned to movie acting. One of his recent film roles was in the Oscar-winning Gladiator...
...rely on heavy marketing and hype to lure ever larger numbers of Americans. And commercialization has results besides elevated attendance—how many more over-promoted, “once-in-a-lifetime” art exhibits can there be before museums resort to “Michelangelo vs. Raphael: The Final Smackdown” to boost interest...
Florence's art treasures are world-renowned. But you wouldn't be able to see the masterworks of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and so many others if it weren't for the contributions of generations of low-profile arts patrons. These days, much of that patronage comes from outside Florence and even outside Italy; walk through the Uffizi and you'll see restorations paid for by groups of art lovers in locations from Kyoto to Cleveland...
...Friends' first big project: the restoration in 2002 of all 10 pieces of marble statuary in the Loggia of Piazza della Signoria?an outdoor room of the Uffizi. This year, patrons were allowed to choose their favorite among 22 16th century paintings in the Accademia's Tribune (home of Michelangelo's David), and have their names appear on a plaque below the painting as the major donor for its restoration. Mel Gibson and his wife chose Alessandro Allori's Madonna Enthroned. Says Brandolini: "There was an explosion of color because these are all Mannerist paintings. It was the first time...
From Venice he made his way to Rome, where he found no major commissions. It may not have helped that while there he managed to criticize, loudly, Michelangelo, the local god who had died just six years earlier. It will come as no surprise to hear that an artist as original as El Greco could be a difficult and opinionated man; his correspondence is full of squabbles over how much he should rightfully be paid. It was the same in Madrid, where he went in hope of securing work from Philip II, the Habsburg King who was then completing...