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While I would argue that panninis are the best thing that has happened to HUDS lunch since popcorn chicken, HUDS can’t just take the cold cuts, cheese, and bread (all found in the deli area), melt them together and expect us not to notice that for lunch we can either make ourselves a sandwich or eat the same sandwich that was already prepared by the grill staff. In short, chicken pesto panninni is delicious; smoked turkey pannini is insulting. I know how to make a sandwich and how to operate a pannini press...
...14th century dawn to the last flowering in the 18th century, and including such greats as Tintoretto, Bellini, Veronese. Two of the finest are Tiepolo's angelic 18th century Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, with its ruddy flesh tones, velvety browns and yellows, and Pannini's The Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston's 30 choices, which will be delivered after its new wing is completed next fall: the 15th century painting...
Born in Piacenza (in North Italy) in 1691, Pannini went to Rome at 26 to learn figure painting in the style of Salvatore Rosa. After classes, he would stroll out from the Eternal City for long looks at the ruins which ringed it like a crum bling shell. Tumbling, ivied walls in scribed with ancient names and victories, pillars overlooking the wilderness or sprawled broken like dead giants in the grass, and marble steps descending into the sod inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations...
...French Ambassador to Rome, Cardinal de Polignac, was the first to take Pannini under his wing. He commissioned the grateful painter to portray him standing in St. Peter's. Later Pannini painted Charles III of Spain in the same setting. Sometimes, even after his reputation was assured, the artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which...
...took Gibbon's imagination to flood Pannini's wide, quiet ruins with the roaring tide of history: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind...