Word: paccagnini
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...took the museum's Giovanni Paccagnini five years to assemble the paintings, and the ordeal was not without its bitter disappointments. The British royal family's ambitious Triumph of Caesar, which Charles I bought, is in such poor condition that it could not be sent at all. Spain was mysteriously uncooperative. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was prevented from lending its Madonna because of the donor's proviso, and the Museum of Art in Copenhagen decided to keep its Christ Seated on a Sarcophagus because it is so popular with tourists...
...Paccagnini persisted; when London's National Gallery agreed to send its Agony in the Garden (see color) only if the castle were air-conditioned. Pacca gnini got it air-conditioned. Thus the show-shares, with the exhibition in Venice of Mantegna's contemporary Carlo Crivelli (TIME, July 14) the honor of being the most exciting now on view in Italy...
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