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...modern painting." Every detail in the painting is presented to perfection; the scene as a whole is a masterpiece of invention. Though the painting has been cut down in size from the original work, there remains an effect of spacelessness. This is a typical bedroom in a typical Venetian palazzo of that day, but it is also like no bedroom that ever existed. The details and the subject matter absorb the eye only temporarily; in the end, the painting becomes a balance of space and a suffusion of colors...
...nearly 300 works, Jean Cocteau made a strained effort to rank Boldini as a precursor of Giacometti and Georges Mathieu. But turning Boldini into a "modern" is beside the point. His Comtesse de Leusse is an ageless ornament that might have adorned the imperial court of Rome, a palazzo of Renaissance Italy, or Buckingham Palace today. Only her clothes freeze her in time...
...Place like Rome. Anna Rowland, an American heiress who looked like a Botticelli, arrived in Rome trailing clouds of 19th century transcendentalism and money. She quickly became a princess (by marriage) and a Catholic (by conversion). Her New England cash restored the frescoes in the Roman palazzo...
...palace itself, properly known as the Palazzo Poli, holds no art treasures; but its south side forms a backdrop for Trevi fountain, conceived in 1630 by Architect Giovanni Bernini, and built more than 100 years later, chiefly by Nicola Salvi. Hollywood added to the fountain's fame with its Three Coins in the Fountain, and Rome's moviemakers did their bit by dunking Anita Ekberg in its great marble basin for a high-voltage, low-décolletage scene in La Dolce Vita...
...History, who will discuss the history of Harvard's cultural ties with Florence and the significance of Lowell's Dante studies. Lowell was one of the founders of the Dante Society and did much to popularize Dante studies in this country. Gilmore's address will be given in the Palazzo Vecchio, an imposing stone structure that dates back centuries to the beginning of the Florentine Republic...