Word: orsini
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...then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next seven years, he prayerfully studied the mannerist distortion of the human figure instigated by Michelangelo. Then for reasons still unknown, El Greco decided to try his luck in Spain, where a friend's father was able to get him commissions for Toledo...
...Orsini's circle, he had met, talked and argued with philosophers, architects and theologians. He had been treated like a man of ideas, as in fact he was. In Spain, he found artists were rated not much above artisans, paid by the square foot. He would neither tolerate nor accept it. An intellectual artist, he demanded to be treated as such. He also rebelliously demanded to be paid as such (that is to say, more), and for all his life in Toledo he was constantly in litigation over the price of his paintings...
...often an actor's amplitude just happens, then turns out to be a help. It is especially useful to a gifted but lesser known journeyman such as Pat Mines, who after 29 years in show business is at last in a Broadway hit, playing the wily courtier Count Orsini-Rosenberg in Amadeus. Says he: "I'm sure there is a 'fat list,' perhaps even written down, that producers consult. You like to think you're hired strictly for your abilities, but I know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might...