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...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
...poor that it cannot even care properly for the treasures it has, let alone acquire more. In its first official report since the war, the National Gallery complained that inadequate maintenance is endangering some of the world's most marvelous paintings. Among them: Michelangelo's Entombment, Piero della Francesca's Nativity, Holbein's Ambassadors, Rubens' Château de Steen. In one room, the only humidity control is a teapot, kept boiling around the clock. As many as 60 paintings have been lined up at one time for the repair of cracking, flaking or rotting canvas. Said a gallery official sadly...
...saying the prayer Anima Christi, just as he reached the words "In hora mortis mei, voca me" (In the hour of my death, call me). Added the article: "The Holy Father is certain that he saw Jesus and that he was not dreaming." Later Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, reported that the Pope also had heard the "true and distinct" voice of Christ. Vatican officials denied press hints that 1) a miraculous cure of the Pope's stomach condition had followed the vision, 2) that a dossier of possible miraculous occurrences was being...
...February day in 1937, Benito Mussolini sent a pickax crashing into the pavement of the Piazza Bocca della Verità to break ground for Rome's first subway. A world war and his own inglorious death interrupted the work Mussolini began. When these greater events were not threatening its progress, Italy's archaeologists poked into the subway excavation and held up the work, to make sure that the tunnelers were not destroying any buried relics of antiquity. But somehow, despite all handicaps, Rome's subway got built. Last week, after 18 years and $20 million...
...have suggested the crime but Adam was guiltier, said the Vatican weekly Osservatore della Domenica in response to a reader's query. Reason: Adam, as "head of humanity," had the greater responsibility...