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...Corning Museum. None dates before 1450, and by that time the industry was well established, centered in Venice's island of Murano, where glass blowers work to this day. The glassmakers imported alkali from Spain and the Near East, pebbles of quartz from the River Ticino near Milan, and manganese, the "glassmakers' soap," which turned their glass to near crystal transparency. They were accurately imitating jewels in glass and turning out beads, tumblers and chalices by the shipload...
...years Manzù taught at Milan's Brera Academy ("You can't teach art, only techniques"), now works in a whitewashed, high-ceilinged studio on the city's outskirts, specializes in the figures of dancers (see overleaf). He is also at work on bronze bas-reliefs for the "Door of Death" (opened only for funerals) in St. Peter's in Rome. While modern sculpture continues on its merry road to abstraction, Giacomo Manzù keeps to the realistic tradition. "I am a modernist," he says, "but I do not deny the past...
Proper Credentials. In Milan, Italy, a pickpocket on a crowded bus lifted Adamo Degli Occhi's wallet, gave it back with embarrassed apologies when he recognized Occhi as the attorney who helped him beat a pickpocket rap two months earlier...
...Milan, where the show attracted 5,000 during the summer art season doldrums, the recognized critics took quite a different view. Wrote Carriere della Sera's Leonardo Borgese: "It is not new. It is not painting. It is not America . . . Droppings of paint, sprayings, burstings, lumps, squirts, whirls, rubs and marks, erasures, scrawls, doodles and kaleidoscope backgrounds. When will they send us a real American show?" The owner of one of Milan's art galleries took one look, snorted, "Droolings!" and departed...
...musicians, had been a church organist, but Giacomo started studying organ with little enthusiasm ("Your son," said an early teacher to his mother, "is meat which does not wish to be salted"). In time he showed a talent for composition, was shipped off on a scholarship to the Milan Conservatory. He was a good but not brilliant student. After graduation he stayed in Milan, ran up such debts with his good friend, Pietro Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana) that the two of them got a map and inked out in red the sections of the city they could not walk through...