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Virginia Governor Linwood Holton and his department of welfare and institutions brushed away the complaints like gnats on a summer day. So a group of Green Springs' principal property owners, led by Colonel and Mrs. Hiram Ely, who own a renowned Tuscan-style villa named Hawkwood, turned to the courts. They demanded federal intervention, since Washington was to pay $775,000 of the prison's construction costs. In one resultant "environmental impact" statement made last summer, the U.S. Justice Department called the historic site "undesirable." Then a study by the Interior Department concluded last month that any grant...
Under the searching Tuscan sunlight, the dialogue between the vast, worn stones of the fortress and Moore's luminously translucent Seravezza marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form. To see his largest piece, the 18-foot high, 170-ton Square Form with Cut, 1969-70, against Brunelleschi's apricot-colored dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is to realize how completely Moore has conquered the problems of architectonic scale, and how little the basic forms that satisfy...
...hosts-a posture that would obviously be unacceptable for a man with Pompidou's ambition to be Europe's primus inter pares. Nevertheless, Leone and Andreotti did manage to come up with a sort of movable Chequers that brought Pompidou to three handsome villas in the Tuscan hills near Pisa-one for a lunch with Leone, one for the "friendly and private talks," and one for a night's lodging. Pompidou did not convince the Italians (any more than he had convinced the Germans and the British) that the Common Market summit scheduled for October should establish...
Watercolor: today, the word seems prim and dilute. It suggests Aunt Mabel, poking at her holiday sketchbook in some Tuscan piazza. Oils for real artists, watercolor for amateurs-so the common prejudice runs. Yet in the 18th and 19th centuries, some of the best painting in Europe was done in watercolor. The brilliant achievements of English art in particular, from Rowlandson to Turner, were largely based on the freedom, speed and unique sparkle of the transparent wash. One forgets what the medium could do. Last week the Pierpont Morgan Library produced a salutary reminder, in the form of a show...
...before, Paul had made it clear what he meant by dangerous pressures when he castigated the official Italian television network for a "terrible attack" on the church. The offending program was a debate between the Pope's personal friend Jean Cardinal Daniélou and a proletarian Tuscan priest who blasted the church for its failure to identify with the oppressed of the earth...