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...curtain time last week, Italian opera fans had promised to fill the theater and boo Von Karajan right off the podium. Tenor Gianni Raimondi, who was hired to sing the role, was getting threatening phone calls for betraying his countryman. Said Di Stefano: "I'm seriously thinking of going to live in Katanga, where they are more civilized...
Dolls & Toy Soldiers. Alexandre was brought up on the French Riviera. Born Alexandre Raimondi, he claims descendance from a general who fought against Napoleon in the Italian campaign. Though he has carefully preserved the sabre and other military relics of his illustrious ancestor, Alexandre says: "From a very early age, I preferred dolls to toy soldiers, dolls whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed...
Manet's Lunch on the Grass [May 9] and his arrangement of the three figures is even more classical than he probably ever suspected. Raimondi's or Raphael's Judgment of Paris is lifted directly from a Roman late 2nd century A.D. sarcophagus or coffin relief of similar subject, which since the late 16th century has been walled up in a prominent place on the garden facade of the 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...
Back in his studio, he had the additional thought of disposing his figures on the grass like those in the lower right-hand corner of Raphael's lost Judgment of Paris, which he knew from Raimondi's engraved copy (above...
Ayres, Tomasick (4) Hallet (7) and Cooper; W. Hafey, Wilkie (8) and Raimondi, Lillard (8). Detroit (A) 000 000 050--5 6 0 New York...