Word: paolo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portraits, and whose works are now prized by the world's great museums. With 142 of his 180 extant paintings and drawings, collected from all over Europe and the U.S., this is the largest Bellini show ever held. The great polyptych of the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice was painstakingly restored for the occasion...
Unlike restless Leonardo da Vinci, who died a lonely old man far from his native Italy in France, Bellini stuck close to home all his 86 years, was finally buried in the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, which as a young man he had helped to decorate. His only recorded complaint against the city that made him wealthy and world famous: its magistrates' insistence that he continue to pay his union dues to the local painters' guild...
Present master of this domain is the first Alessandro's great-grandson, 23-year-old Don Alessandro Carlo Paolo Giulio Augusto Francesco Romano Torlonia, Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Canino and Musignamo, Duke of Ceri, Marquess of Romavecchia. To prevent Torlonia tenants from acquiring any permanent rights to their land, the family has forbidden them to plant trees or build huts. The Torlonias' armed guard no longer has to rely on the hounds; it rides in jeeps, patrolling day & night, along a 33-mile road surrounding Fucino...
...auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
...American standards, Shoeshine was made on a shoestring: 31 million lire ($138,000). (Open City cost only $100,000.) But it was a long, hard scrimmage in the making. Neither Producer Paolo W. Tamburella (who thought up the idea), nor Director Vittorio De Sica, nor Sergio Amidei (who wrote Open City) and his three fellow writers are exactly yes-men. Finding the right actors and getting fine performances out of young amateurs-they were all shoeshine boys-was no small job in itself. And there were plenty of subsidiary difficulties. (When Allied authorities forbade G.I.s to act in the film...