Word: pitti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plastered on walls from floor to ceiling, hung in dark corners, sometimes illuminated by smoking candles. Even today the museumgoer in Europe can find himself trapped in darkness in Madrid's Prado,* engulfed in fog in London's National Gallery or lost in Florence's unlighted Pitti Palace on a rainy...
...have usually conceded that there had to be definite symptoms such as runny nose, asthma or hives before allergy could be proved. Last week, having exhausted the known world in their search for allergenic villains, 500 dedicated specialists from 22 nations finished their meeting in Florence's Palazzo Pitti with new inspiration: ten times as common as conventional allergy, and far more treacherous, may be a hidden type called idioblapsis...
...first call produced some 700 offers of Giorgionesque paintings from private collections. Faced with this embarrassment of riches, the Venice committee chose 136 oils, attributed only 62 of them to Giorgione or his anonymous followers. Even of these, one called The Three Ages of Man, from Florence's Pitti Gallery, has been attributed at various times to Lotto, Morto da Feltre, Pier Mario Pennacchi, Francesco Torbido, Giambellino, an anonymous Venetian, and Giorgione; five years ago, it hung at another Venice exhibition devoted to the works of Giovanni Bellini...
...Villa Medici in Rome. This sarcophagus relief influenced the work of other artists who saw it before or after its arrival in that garden still much frequented by painters. For example, Rubens used it as the basis for his celebrated painting The Horrors of War, now in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence...
Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...