Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white? Because the protagonist in his Venetian churches, San Giorgio Maggiore and the Redentore, no less than in his villas, is light-the rich, fugitive, unstable light of the lagoon and the inland plain. Reflected from the creamy Istrian stone, absorbed by brick work and stucco, or washing solemnly across the pure vaults and domes, light gave substance a dreamlike sensuousness. No architect ever understood the ingredients of his craft better; Palladio's buildings, strict as they are, remain both exquisite and ideal, as though held in a parenthesis somewhere outside mundane history...
...outskirts of Paris. The name is scrawled on buildings and walls from Norway to Sicily, sometimes in elaborate quotations but most often only in simple graffiti. "Viva Marx!" says a slogan scribbled on a building near the University of Barcelona. More than a thousand miles away on a gray stucco wall in West Berlin, a splash of whitewash exults: "Marx lebt [Marx lives...
...paintings he did in Italy are full of a quite un-Renaissance sense of foreboding and psychological tension. In the end, he committed suicide in a fit of depression. But Rosso's designs for the Galerie François Premier at Fontainebleau set the court style: the fantastic stucco cartouches, gilding and strapwork; the airless painted space, filled with large twisting bodies based on Michelangelo's figura serpentinata; the strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed...
...their straw hats, peacefully working the nearby fields. We passed numerous Chinese and Russian Jeeps and new Soviet trucks, but very few civilian cars. Traffic consisted mostly of bicycles and bullock carts. Hanoi itself was very much as I remembered it-a 19th century French colonial city of yellow stucco buildings, scrupulously clean streets lined with lichee, pine and tamarind trees. There is heavy bomb damage on the outskirts of the city, especially near the airport. But despite the repeated U.S. air raids, I saw little sign of destruction. Hanoi is certainly no Hiroshima...
Kissinger himself did not see much bomb damage. He and his team occupied a high-ceilinged yellow stucco house, once the residence of the French administrator of Tonkin, with a formal garden graced by peach and plum blossoms in bloom. Walking along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake, Kissinger was the object of stares from passersby, but none approached him. He was impressed by the city's quiet, where the street traffic consists mainly of bicycles...