Word: palazzos
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...past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
...Venice likes to guess at what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies...
...Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
...hopes of museum directors round the world. After long pondering the future of her collection (she once offered to will it to famed Renaissance Specialist Bernard Berenson, now 92, and was laughingly refused), Peggy called in her attorneys to set up a foundation that would permanently preserve her palazzo collection, thus in effect bequeathing it to the Venetians...
Architecturally, the Piazza della Signoria is a unique example of the harmony of three styles, separated in time by some 250 years. Dominating them all is the rough-stoned Palazzo Vecchio, with its narrow, Tuscan-Gothic windows. At right angles stands the triple-arched Loggia dei Lanzi (named for the German lancers quartered there by the Medici), which many critics consider the most beautiful secular building in Florence. Between the two is the short, narrow street which Mannerist Painter Giorgio di Vasari created as a tour de force in perspective, leading to the Arno...