Word: piero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic Italy. There was Prince Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia, formaldehyde, artificial silk for black shirts, from their chemical constituents...
Still irreligious, he became an ally of the world's greatest religious organization. Is this a first step towards a true profession of religious faith? Piero Chiminelli, in The Christian Century, asks the question and leaves it unanswered...
...last year to his California home for $640,000; Sir Thomas Lawrence's Boy with a Dog and Portrait of a Lady; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Mathew; Romney's Mrs. Chitty Marshall; Velasquez' Two Princesses; Fra Angelico's Day of Judgment; Piero di Cosimo's panels of the life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers...