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...place with ornaments and vessels of gold and silver, covered the beds and furnishings with the costliest silks. He had, in fact, a Sybarite's passion for finery, and he let it be known that he was not averse to accepting "official" gifts. At one point, when the Venetian government was pressing for some trade concessions, its ambassador in London suggested that his superiors dispatch to Hampton Court 100 Damascene carpets at once. "To discuss the matter further until the cardinal receives his 100 carpets would be idle," he said...
...Festival's approach to Richard II is, fortunately, straight. Artistic director Jack Landau has departed; gone with him are the potato-chip and Venetian-blind settings, and the trick gimmicks. So we are spared a transplantation to Cuba with a Castro-Bolingbroke...
...distressing shock for the baron. He had barely bought a large Tiepolo in Venice in 1865 when the Venetian court, foretokening the laws against exporting art treasures that apply now in all major Western countries but the U.S. and Switzerland, ruled that he could not take it away. Baron de Schwiter, a diplomat, got an Austrian colleague to smuggle it out anyway; now, decades later, it has ended up in the U.S., the country whose eager art buying inspired most of the protectionist laws elsewhere. Last week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced that it had acquired the Tiepolo...
...Bombs. Nono, who regards the voice as "the perfect instrument," is not worried about overburdening singers ("Only composers like Mascagni ruined voices-because they did not understand vocal problems"). Son of a wealthy Venetian engineer, Nono studied music and law simultaneously, was greatly influenced by the works of Composer Arnold Schoen-berg-whose daughter, Nuria Schoenberg, he later married. Now living in Venice, Nono turns out a steady two or three works a year, often calculating their complex connections in algebraic equations...
...Curtis Publishing Co.. Pahlmann's nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with the Chinese...