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...Sydney, Italy won its first Olympic gold medal in the pool - and tripled the stash by the end of the week. While Domenico Fioravanti won the breaststroke double, it was his compatriot Massimiliano Rosolino who will stay in the memory of swimming fans. Following a silver medal in the 400-m freestyle behind Thorpe and bronze behind the freakish duo in the 200-m freestyle, the 22-year-old Neapolitan stormed past American Tom Dolan to take gold in the 200-m individual medley. The crowd roared in rapture. The likable Italian, who lived in Australia as a child, danced...
...tuxes (like the sun- doused pastels in After Six's "Miami Vice" collection), as well as a scale of prices that rise from the bargain basement ($139 for a polyester- blend model made in Hungary) to $3,500 for a hand-tailored cashmere or silk number from William Fioravanti in New York City. "There are only about 500 of us in the world who own these Fioravanti tuxedoes," boasts New Jersey Entrepreneur Joe Taub, who swanks up his with diamond-and-ruby studs. Giorgio Armani works subtle and cunning variations on the classic tux ($1,395), and Issey Miyake strikes...
They painted the unfired creations in the Etruscan manner, then broke them into pieces because they did not have the huge kilns that the Etruscans had. After firing the fragments, they smeared them with mud and turned them over to a dealer who is now dead. Fioravanti guesses that one of the figures fetched the dealer at least $40,000, but "all we got," says he ruefully, "was a few hundred...
...Last month Harold Parsons took Fioravanti to the U.S. consulate and had him make a signed confession of the forgery. With that in hand, Parsons sent off a letter to the Met in Manhattan. The Met was not too surprised: its own ceramics expert, Joseph V. Noble, had already completed a series of chemical tests on the statues. His major finding: the famous Greek-black glaze actually contained a modern coloring agent, manganese dioxide...
Director James Rorimer dispatched his curator of Greek and Roman art to Rome. Curator Dietrich von Bothmer confronted Fioravanti in Parsons' apartment. Von Bothmer produced a plaster cast of one of the warrior's hands, from which the thumb was missing. Fioravanti in turn produced a thumb of baked pottery that he had been keeping for years. Placed together, thumb and hand fitted perfectly...