Word: torris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Franco Marinotti, 66, is a stout, energetic Italian who considers painting his lifework and business a mere sideline. As a painter, whose work bears the name Francesco Torri,* he has achieved critical acclaim throughout Italy for his craftsmanlike landscapes. But it is at his sideline that Franco Marinotti excels. As president of Milan's mammoth Snia Viscosa, he has almost singlehanded turned a tottering business into one of Italy's ten largest corporations and one of the world's biggest textile combines. Last year, with 60 plants turning out textiles in seven countries, Snia Viscosa was worth...
...most discussed exhibition in Italy last week was of 94 landscapes and cityscapes signed "Francesco Torri." It was not the quality of the paintings that made talk, though they were pretty good. Unpretentious sketches of pleasant spots for a picnic or an apéritif, the canvases were simple in composition and glowing in color. They were the work of a man, one critic had averred, "who knows his trade...
...Torri's trade is rayon textiles. He is head man of gigantic and world-famed Snia Viscosa (40,000 employees). He signs himself "Torri" (Towers), he explained, because he has built three towering structures: an office building in Milan and factories near Venice and in Spain. His real name is Franco Marinotti, and his personal income is around $2,000,000 a year. At 60, Marinotti looks a bit like a short and overweight Daddy Warbucks. He has painted all his life...