Word: paolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started in 1952 when a wealthy Italian contractor named Paolo Masieri commissioned Architect Wright to design a building as a memorial to Masieri's son Angelo, killed in an automobile accident in the U.S. The new palazzo was to be used as a study center and quarters for architectural students. A site was chosen on the Grand Canal between the magnificent 15th century Ca' Foscari, once a residence of the doges, and the 16th century Palazzo Balbi. The house which Wright's palazzo would replace is a dingy brownstone residence...
...Paolo Tamburella, the result is an amiable, ingratiating human comedy with overtones of A Bell for Adano and The Little World of Don Camilla...
...Paolo would rather go home to Carrara and get back to work. The son of a successful sculptor whose wife's family owns some marble quarries, Paolo has been drawing since he can remember. At five he was copying animals out of children's books, putting together weird composites, later ducked school to ramble around the countryside drawing whatever caught his fancy. He took no art lessons, shunned all advice. "He would never listen to me," says his father, Aldo Buttini. Instead, Paolo read art books and tramped through museums soaking up the masters' techniques...
...while, when he was eleven, Paolo tried sculpture, turned out amazingly good busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
When he gets back to Carrara, Paolo Buttini plans to try a new medium. He thinks he is about ready to start working in oils. In about two years, Paolo thinks, "I will really have something to show people...