Word: urbino
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...white and black-especially black-are the favorite colors of Nino Caffé. But for a long time, working away at still lifes, landscapes and portraits, he had small chance to use them. Then one day Caffé looked out of his window in Urbino and saw young black-frocked Italian seminarians roughhousing in a courtyard. He has concentrated ever since on painting Italy's young priests...
Fame. Of all the artists flourishing in the 16th-Century Rome of Popes Julius II and Leo X-Perugino, Signorelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo-none was so gracious, so accomplished or so beloved as Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino. The Church heaped favor, work and riches upon him. At 25 he was commissioned to do huge murals for the Pope's quarters in the Vatican. He became chief architect of Rome. Princely Cardinals and wealthy bankers sought him out to do their portraits or decorate their villas...
Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino, escaped from Borgia's treachery with San Marinese help. Garibaldi saw an Austrian Army that was pursuing him halt at the Republic's frontiers. When the Fascist tide started rising in Italy, so many refugees were washed up on the mountain side that Italy threatened to take over San Marino. Instead, the Fascists tried for years to control its politics. Not until 1932 was there a pro-Fascist majority in the 60-man Grand Council. Not until Federico Gozi (whose family has run San Marino for years) and Salvatore Foschi were elected twin regents...
...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
...Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City may not lend their paintings. He even sent Titian's Venus of Urbino from Florence's Uffizi, although a gap had already been left for it on the walls of Venice's great show of Titians (TIME, May 13). A little before the Paris show ends at the end of July the Urbino Venus will go to Venice. By last week...