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Flesh & Florins. Puzzled by his cool, delicate style, Lotto's fellow Venitians much preferred the flesh and blood magnificence of his giant contemporary, Titian. So Lotto roamed Italy's small towns, picking up a commission for a church mural here, a portrait there. In 1554, when he was 72, Lotto turned himself and his belongings over to the Holy House at Loreto, because he was "tired of wandering." The contract provided that the monks would say prayers for him, and that he would have one florin a month "to do what he pleased with...
...Depression, he was a frequent contributor to Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, and one day in 1934 he took a party card from a persistent editor in the Worker's office to "keep him quiet." In 1935 he went to Moscow to sell a set of murals. But when he refused to revise the mural to Red specifications, i.e., make Stalin a more prominent figure, the Reds refused to pay for it, and Burck returned to the U.S. He worked for a year at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch under Dan Fitzpatrick (TIME, June 22) before joining...
...Information Service is not the only arm of the Government in possession of Kent's work. Congress owns a mural called On Earth-Peace, which Kent painted in the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee room...
Jackets to Jeans. The Crestubilee got under way at a big banquet in the high-school gym, beneath a giant, school-painted mural of Waikiki Beach. After dinner the basketball floor was cleared and a band, imported from Des Moines, struck up. At 11 p.m. everyone proceeded to the Uptown Theater for a "Hollywood First Night." Searchlights probed the sky and more than 1,000 Crestonians pressed against the ropes and ogled the kids as they went up the blue carpet past photographers and radio interviewers to see a Technicolored musical, The Girl Next Door...
Said one priest, noting that the Catholic Church has long considered Hidalgo a national hero: "The purpose of the mural, instead of getting Mexicans together as Hidalgo tried to do, is to divide them up again...