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...Romanesque Baptistery, dating from 1153, containing an ornate 13th-Century pulpit by Niccola Pisano, an octagonal font built in 1246 by Bigarelli of Como...
There was Thomas Neglia, reputed North Side gambling king. He was already in a reclining position, getting a barber shop shave, when hoodlums rubbed him out. John Pisano, a small-time gangster, was shot at the wheel of his car. The gunmen who murdered James D'Angelo, a gambler and saloonkeeper, trussed his limp body up with a clothesline, left it in the trunk of his automobile...
...gloated over newly acquired horses and wagons ("seventy oat-burners and their equipage, rubberless and gasless from nose to tail-board"). The News has frequently growsed about the ineptitudes of rubber and gas rationing. But last week the horse-&-buggy News was almost good humored. Said Driver John Pisano: "A newspaper delivery horse learns the turns and stops, and the driver just pitches the bundles...
Almost as confusing to young art students as Monet and Manet are Pisano, Picasso and Pissarro. Niccola Pisano (1206-80) was a famed sculptor of the Italian Renaissance. Hulking Pablo Picasso, at 54, remains the highest priced of all modernist painters. Camille Pissarro was the French Impressionist who looked like Monet. Last week the firm of Durand-Ruel, which has had almost a monopoly on Impressionist paintings for 50 years, gave at its Manhattan galleries the most complete one-man show of Pissarro's paintings the U. S. has seen...
...Dossena sculptures had been sold as original antiques by the great Renaissance artists: Donatello, Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Niccola Pisano, etc., etc. Newspapers, promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid...