Word: romes
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Still, the work displays its own sources. Ribera saw, and was completely bowled over by, the work of Caravaggio, which he must have heard about in Spain though not seen until he got to Rome. This happened around 1610, the year Caravaggio died. It is hardly fanciful to suppose that Ribera, barely 20 years old and full of an expatriate's ambition, was anxious to move into the space only just vacated by this great and still controversial painter...
Other contemporaries, such as Guido Reni and Annibale Carracci, affected him deeply as well; he had worked on their turf, in Parma, before coming to Rome. It was, however, Caravaggio, the tragic realist, with his dramatically articulate figures sculpted by darkness, his appetite for common life and his candor about the apprehensible world, who had blown away the mincing academism of late mannerist art and shown the way forward to a whole generation of younger European painters, of whom Ribera was the most gifted...
This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...
...first time, Italian, Spanish and British police joined their counterparts in the Drug Enforcement Administration in undercover storefront stings that penetrated the cartel's money-moving operations in Europe. In Rome, authorities arrested 30 people, including one member apiece from each of Italy's most legendary -- and lethal -- organized crime groups: the Mafia, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The arrests underscored the existence of a dangerous alliance between the Cali cartel, which controls 80% to 90% of the world cocaine production, and Italy's formidable organized crime groups. "Money is the life blood of a drug organization, and our efforts to dismantle...
However, Fisher says the effort has receivedenthusiastic support from students and staff. Hesays that he is optimistic, but adds, "I partlymade a two-year commitment to indicate I'm notgoing to build Rome...