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...flat screen. What made audiences sit happily through two hours of the first public sampling of Cinerama was the "three dimensional" sensation to eyes & ears (TIME, July 2, 1951). The illusion jammed the spectators into the front car of a whipping roller coaster, then into a gliding Venetian gondola, then in the nose of a converted bomber as it soared across plains and mountains...
...small (pop. 11,774) town of Bassano del Grappa, at the foot of the Venetian Alps, Italian art lovers were paying their respects last week to a long-neglected figure of the Renaissance. His name was Jacopo da Ponte, and he lived from about 1515 to 1592, painting frescoes and altar pieces for palazzi and churches. As "Jacopo Bassano," he was once ranked with such contemporary greats as Titian and Tintoretto. But by later generations his fame had clouded, and he was considered just a gifted but uneven craftsman of the Venetian School. The exhibit in Bassano's Civic...
After modern-day journeys to Bassano, Venetian critics were just as enthusiastic, spoke of reserving a section of the next Venice Biennale for Jacopo. Wrote Venice's Il Gazzettino: "Jacopo realized a personal vision that does not give ground even when confronted with the greatest of 16th century Venetian artists...
...Venice itself, a group of young U.S. painters made a deep bow to the Venetian past. They were the members of a small U.S. art colony that has settled since war's end in the city with the candid intention of learning all they can from the work of the old Venetian masters. Last week ten of them hung up 35 of their pictures in a 15th century palazzo and invited the town in to see the results...
...without risk. Any Venetian practicing his art abroad was denounced as a traitor, his family was imprisoned, and hired assassins were sent out to hunt him down...