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...their time in a social club in the area and in local bars. They are quite friendly with local residents and with the political leadership. One of the organized crime leaders, a man known as "Buckelow," is a tenant in a building owned by Democratic county leader Frank Rossetti. The Italians involved in drug traffic operate far more surreptitiously in another part of East Harlem. They do not maintain contacts with local residents and stick mostly to themselves. Father Gigante has told me that he refuses to associate with anyone he knows is involved with narcotics trafficking...
...from Egypt. Yet, ironically, for all the cherubic children and floating bubbles that accompany the Christ child, in this particular painting the meticulously executed landscape is barely visible. Grenville Winthrop, who donated this pre-Raphaelite collection to the Fogg in 1943, showed a marked preference for the work of Rossetti and his close friend Burne-Jones. And these paintings are primarily paintings of beautiful, highly seductive women...
...Rossetti represents a second, later trend in pre-Raphaelite painting--a withdrawal from the natural world into the realms of the imagination. An inept draftsman, Rossetti was baffled by perspective and uninterested in the details of landscape. He was a poet and perhaps did not have the patience to learn much of the technique of painting. His paint surfaces lack in technical virtuosity, but this is over-shadowed by the haunting mysticism of his women. They are undoubtedly the best known of all pre-Raphaelite works...
...Rossetti saw women, particularly beautiful women, as the saviors of mankind--a conception derived from Dante. He envisioned heaven as a place peopled with the souls of lovers embracing, with a single woman, similar to Dante's Beatrice, waiting to guide him. However, according to Pre-Raphaelite principles, it was necessary for Rossetti to square this vision of a women with the likeness of a living person. He found his answer in the person of Elizabeth Siddal, who was eventually to become his wife. Pictured in "Beata Beatrix" with the figures of Dante and Love behind her, Elizabeth Siddal eventually...
Burne-Jones was also drawn into Rossetti's world of enchantment. When he painted women, he was preoccupied with the image of the femme fatale, the woman triumphing over men. In the "Depth of the Sea" a mermaid, smiling strangely, clasps the body of a dead mariner and pulls him down to the sea floor. However, Burne-Jones's subject matter expands beyond Rossetti's obsession with women. During a time of intense popular interest in the legend of King Arthur, Burne-Jones spent many hours drawing the head of Sir Galahad. And particularly knowledgeable in Greek mythology, he undertook...