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...four centuries, the glassmakers of Venice were the greatest in the world. None could match the airy grace of their filigrees, the clarity of their plain glass, or the richness of their painted colors. But runaways spread the Venetian art to the ends of Europe,* and Venice became a dull backwater producing dull imitations of the great old days. Last week the news from Venice was of a new Renaissance...
...reactions of Venice's art lovers ranged all the way from bewilderment to outright anger. "Art is a religion," growled 85-year-old Giuseppe Cherubim, dean of Venetian painters. "If it were up to me, I would do as Christ did when he kicked the profaners out of the temple. These paintings are made with water and idle talk." But idle or not, spatialism was the talk of Venice. During the first week, 4.000 crushed in for a look at the atomic fireballs and glowing pinholes...
Until recent years, if the name of Antonio Vivaldi (circa 1678-1740) appeared on a concert program at all, it was usually linked by a hyphen to the name of Bach, who transcribed a goodly number of Vivaldi's works. Little was known about Venetian Vivaldi himself. The main facts: 1) he was a red-haired priest who had to stop saying Mass because of his choking attacks of asthma, 2) he traveled all over Europe as a violinist, and 3) he was "feeble and sick, yet lively as gunfire...
Veronese got his name from his birthplace, Verona, but Venice was home to him. His art is a somewhat overblown flowering of the great tradition of Venetian painting -a tradition which Giovanni Bellini, the teacher of Titian and Giorgione, founded. For the chill, narrow intensity of earlier Venetian art, these men substituted warmth, breadth and grace. Critic Antoine Orliac once summed up Veronese in a scholarly line: "He is the expression of hieratic constraint relaxing into luminous activity...
...begun, naturally, with Old Masters, but the supply was strictly limited. So he went ahead with Gutenberg Bibles, racehorses, Stradivariuses, snuffboxes, stained glass, milk glass, Waterford glass and Venetian glass. He owned four spas, half of Chicago, an inland sea and a buffer state. The trouble was that Gordon's collecting interests quickly flagged, and whenever they did, his personality turned sour. At such times, he would stay slugabed all day, spitefully jolting the market by dumping or buying, and making life difficult for his wife Isabel...