Word: marcantonio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prodigious appetite for lawsuits, concerns the Cabala less than her stripling son, who has fallen, as young Romans are expected to fall in their mid-teens, among many women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio's incestuous flare-up with his half-sister, ending in suicide...
...shown are three XVth Century paste prints; a cut from a XVth Century edition of the Apocalypse block book; XVth and Early XVIth Century wood cuts made from illustrations in printed books; XVth Century Florentine engravings; The Judgement of Paris, one of the early and very rare prints by Marcantonio; a beautiful impression of Mantegna's Seated Virgin; two large engravings by the North Italian, Mocetto; and prints by Ingres, Fragonard, Manet, Daumier and Delacroix...