Word: squez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, 71, last male descendant of the main branch of the famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...
...couple passed by, one sentry, a stocky half-Indian named Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, snapped his heels together at attention, slapped his rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once...
...guard fired another round into the President's body, then fled toward the palace gate, fired one round at a screaming maid, another at a colonel of the guards (neither was hit). As his former comrades in arms rushed up from all sides, Vásquez Sánchez put the rifle muzzle to his throat and fired the last bullet of his five-round clip upward through his own skull...
...about the iniquity of the way Italian pictures particularly are being skinned alive by restorers." Other letters pointed out various masterpieces in London's National Gallery which may have ceased to be masterpieces through too much cleaning. Among them: pictures by Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Velásquez, and even Leonardo's great Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo's figures, wrote one angry correspondent, "are now bathed in a light only seen on the faces of the dead; or the neon lighting of a coffee...
Striving for the same objectivity, the same near-magical illusionism that distinguished Velásquez, Goya took up portraiture himself...