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FLORENCE'S PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA can boast that it is the greatest open-air sculpture museum in the world. There, with a commanding view, stands the massive equestrian statue of Cosimo I. Past the Fountain of Neptune is the copy of Michelangelo's great David. Still on public view are Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus and Donatello's Judith and Holoferaes...
Architecturally, the Piazza della Signoria is a unique example of the harmony of three styles, separated in time by some 250 years. Dominating them all is the rough-stoned Palazzo Vecchio, with its narrow, Tuscan-Gothic windows. At right angles stands the triple-arched Loggia dei Lanzi (named for the German lancers quartered there by the Medici), which many critics consider the most beautiful secular building in Florence. Between the two is the short, narrow street which Mannerist Painter Giorgio di Vasari created as a tour de force in perspective, leading to the Arno...
...Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...
Twentieth-century tastes in art have rescued from oblivion or minor status an imposing list of old masters, e.g., Italy's Piero della Francesca, Spain's El Greco, The Netherlands' Vermeer. Still least-known of the rediscovered old masters is France's 17th century Georges de La Tour (TIME, July 12, 1948), three of whose works have just been acquired by U.S. museums (see color page). The wonder seems less that such paintings are recognized as masterworks than that they were ever consigned to the attic...
...first-night critics was divided. Some were charmed by the opera's lyricism and moved by its emotional power; others found its music imitative or thought they detected in the more elegant passages the old prewar Poulenc peeping through the sackcloth. "Fine theater, but mediocre music," said Corriere della Sera Music Critic Franco Abbiati. Said the widely read Socialist daily Avanti! chauvinistically: "A truly French poverty in the primary operatic materials." But the Scala opening-night audience, toughest opera audience in the world, rewarded beaming Composer Poulenc by giving the production 19 curtain calls...