Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDWARD LANING-Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th St. Forty-six paintings and drawings, mostly Italian in theme, open this new gallery. Included is an oil called Sanctuario, a spooky look at a Neapolitan side-street shrine. Through...
Kind & Gentle. To his neighbors in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., the quiet suburban town where he lived for some 30 years and raised his two children, Genovese seemed a "kind and gentle man." But according to Joe Valachi, the underworld canary who sang for the Senate's McClellan committee, Neapolitan-born Racketeer Genovese, 65, is the "boss of all bosses." He arrived, Valachi explained, by a straightforward tactic: he had his rivals murdered...
...enjoy it thoroughly. Bronzed from a District of Columbia jail sun lamp and sucking a juice-filled plastic lemon to soothe his sore throat, he mumbled a litany of remembered violence on the sidewalks of New York in the '30s. He described the bloody revolution among rival Neapolitan and Sicilian Cosa Nostra families in the New York-New Jersey area that took 60-odd lives with stiletto and chopper, involved intricate double and triple crosses and led to the ascendancy of Vito Genovese as the Mafia's "boss of bosses...
Medardo Rosso was a rebel. A shaggy, red-bearded bohemian, he called Greek and Roman sculpture "nothing but paperweights." The curly beard of Michelangelo's Moses was "Neapolitan spaghetti" to him. While studying at the Brera Academy in Milan, he punched a fellow student and was expelled. He took haven in Paris' Montmartre district in the days of Degas, Lautrec and Rodin. What did he think about Rodin, his senior by nearly 18 years? "Rosso loves Rosso," was his cool reply...
Rico Lebrun came to America as a commercial artist in 1924 after training at both the Naples Academy of Fine Arts and a Neapolitan stained-glass factory. He worked commercially in Pittsburgh and New York for several years, then returned to Italy in the early thirties. There, he studied the frescoes of Signorelli and developed his talent enough to win two successive Guggenheim grants when he returned to the United States in 1936. He claims that the Italian wall painters are still the greatest influence on his work...