Word: procacci
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Scholars had long had to take Vasari's word for it, since the frescoes seemed to have disappeared without a trace. But one who had not forgotten about them was Ugo Procacci, Florence's superintendent of galleries and formerly the Uffizi Gallery's chief restorer. While bundling off Florentine art treasures for safekeeping after the outset of World War II, he was struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment...
...Heart Skipped." Could the polyptych be by Giotto and come from the Badia? Vasari had described such a work on the high altar. Later cleaning proved Procacci's hunch correct; handwriting analysis narrowed the date of the sticker to about 1810. Procacci was then able to reconstruct what had happened: the altarpiece had been removed in 1810 by Napoleon's troops from the Badia; then in 1815, through a clerical mistake, it had been returned instead to Santa Croce. Digging through the old floor plans of the Badia, Procacci made a second discovery. The church had been rebuilt...
...until 1958 did Procacci get final authorization and money to tear down the Badia's 17th century east wall. The first chisel strokes opened a hole in the inner wall no bigger than a grapefruit, just large enough for Procacci to put his hand through. The inner surface was smooth, which meant it had been frescoed. "When I saw that there was a lit tle color," he recalls, "my heart skipped a beat...
Penn's starting pitcher could be Pat Procacci, a lefthanded slowballer with a 1-0 league record, or Chuck Miller, who has lost two and tied one. Jeff Neuman, the best basketball guard in the Ivy League, pitches relief. Neuman's basketball cohort, Ray Carazo, is rightfielder, captain, and leading hitter for the Quakers...
Penn's hurier Pat Procacci was unspectacular in striking out four and walking two, but really didn't gave the Crimson nine much to look at. His favorite--and most frequent--pitch was a fast ball that came down the outside to the right handed hitters and broke sharply across the center of the plate at the last minute. All seven hits against him were singles, an indication that the Crimson batters were having difficulty getting wood on the ball