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...documentation for sales of art works are still remarkably weak. But sometimes a thief blunders and takes something unsalably famous. Siviero claims this is what happened in 1971, with the theft of Masaccio's Madonna with Child and Memling's Portrait of a Gentleman from Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. "The thieves found that even after two or three years they couldn't sell them, and we were able to recover them." He hopes that the fame of the Raphael and the Pieros will likewise result in their recovery. "The thieves couldn't sell that Raphael...
...spokesman said Thursday that the university had not decided whether to discipline demonstrators, but Daniel Del Vecchio, B.U.'s head of program resources, reportedly threatened to proscribe B.U. SDS, which helped organize the demonstration, if the organization participated in illegal activity such as preventing people from entering a building...
...Palace becomes like St. Peter's in Rome; the blue and, gold mosaic work like the Early Christian tomb of Galia Placidia; the cypresses in the parking lot like the Villa D'Este; and the statue of David near the entrance, although having slight anatomical exaggerations, like the Palazzo Vecchio in Rome. Venturi's sense of imagination even allows him to see the A&P parking lot in terms of the gardens at Versailles. The parking lines give direction in a vast, expansion space in the same way that the paving patterns and shrubbery guide movement at Versailles...
...past was too enormous and confused. But as he spoke things only dimly known seemed to become realities. Giant figures of the past, obscured by the magnitude of their own reputations, had all been friends of Ungaretti's, and celebrants of his art. Collected in Il Tacciuno del Vecchio (The Notebook of an Old Man) is the homage of a generation: letters, essays, a poem by the Mexican Octavio Oaz and one by Henri Thuile...
...doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and has the normal, diminutive male genitalia of a four-month-old bambino...