Word: siena
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lemoyne (NY) 57, Siena...
...distress was just beginning. Later the same night, the police picked up Old Grad Poppe. The story that Poppe told stole the basketball headlines last week: Co-Captain Poppe, working with his teammate, Co-Captain John A. Byrnes, had helped to throw three Manhattan games last year (against Bradley, Siena, and Santa Clara); each co-captain had collected $5,000 for his cooperation, plus a $40-a-week salary...
Last week Siena, his home town, celebrated the 401st anniversary of Il Sodoma's death with a full-dress retrospective exhibition drawn from France and Germany as well as Italy. Along with the 70-odd paintings and drawings on show was a batch of personal documents that proved him to have been the luxury product of a wide-open age; lazy, cynical, proud, humorous and wild...
...lute with what Vasari grudgingly described as "no little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...
...rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter...