Word: portonaccio
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...drawings, done in squiggly pen lines and ink washes, pictured the battered buildings and tattered people of Portonaccio, a slum on the eastern outskirts of Rome. Sharp and bitter as Italian black coffee, they sold out in two days. Next time 20-year-old Artist Renzo Vespignani dropped in at the gallery, he got a hearty welcome...
...rich, as well as the Reds, backed Vespignani; he soon moved from Portonaccio to a high-priced apartment in the center of Rome. One-man shows in Paris, Stockholm and Manhattan earned him an international reputation. The reputation is based largely on his drawings rather than on his paintings-the paintings often have the color and texture of dried...
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