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...help of some canny promotion, 22-year-old Singer Mathis has also boosted himself during the past year into the most valuable new property in show business. Last week, for the sake of "prestige" (and $2,000 a week plus a percentage of the take), Johnny checked into the Venetian Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and showed the home-town folks how he had made it big so fast...
...Friend. For generations scholars have been troubled by the disturbing blank area at the right of the painting. Placing it under X ray, the London institute discovered a long-suspected third figure, a man younger than the others. Experts have guessed that Titian's first friend was Venetian Grand Chancellor Andrea dei Franceschi, but Friend No. 2, and the reasons why he was brushed out, are unknown...
...historians long ago confirmed the ties between Bellini and Titian. Bellini, the master of 15th century Venetian painting, was more than 80 when he delivered his Feast to the proud, warlike...
Duke Alfonso I d'Este of Ferrara and his wife, Lucrezia Borgia. Bellini had called on the young talent of Titian to help finish the great canvas. After Bellini's death in 1516, Titian-who became the new Venetian master-won the commission to paint three other large, allegorical paintings for the duke's Renaissance study. As an added service, Titian repainted sections of the Feast to make it accord with the more luxury-loving tastes of his time-and, incidentally, to accord more with his own oils...
...string of sex, but class composes the melody. In this case, a gondolier rashly falls in love with a beautiful English girl whose snobbery is so intense that it simply does not occur to her that a mere gondolier could aspire to be her lover. When the uninformed Venetian finally begins to understand, he swills wine, falls off a quay and is drowned, but not before the reader wishes that he had taken his painted oar to the girl in Liberty silks...