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...prestige and more. Today, Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan is lord of a unique musical empire: he controls the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera, directs the major recordings of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, performs major assignments at Milan's La Scala Opera. At 48 he is the most powerful musician in Europe, perhaps in the world...
...Remarkably fresh after an hour's hard cycling at Milan's Vigorelli Stadium, Italy's Ercole Baldini clocked just under 29 m.p.h. for a new world's record, announced that he would turn pro in January and was promptly ruled ineligible for the coming Olympics...
...Milan and her lands never produced a painter even approaching the first rank," wrote famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson. "She lacked genius." The failing of Milan artists, in Berenson's critical view: "Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting. Like an infinite ocean of soap-bubbles, it covered even the most salient figures with a formless iridescence...
Last week in Milan's 13th century Church of San Marco a dedicated Milanese restorer, pretty Pinin Brambilla, 31, was finishing the task of uncovering an unsuspected fresco that tor its brilliant, fresh colors and bold, naturalistic drawing of the crucified Christ might well make even Critic Berenson eat his words...
Milanese art historians, excited by the discovery, date it between 1370 and 1380, making it the only known 14th century fresco in Milan. Part of the fresco was destroyed in early attempts to restore it, but enough remains to set scholars wondering who the artist was. One hypothesis is that he might well be one Giovanni de Milano, born near Como, who came to Milan in the 1370-80 period and introduced a more realistic style with emphasis on details of robes and three-dimensionality...