Word: francescas
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...cast of Hair have all left theirs on English cutting-room floors. In Paris, the Duchess of Windsor, Mme. Herve Alphand and Claudia Cardinale have gone for Alexandre's version of the style; Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren settled for Apelike wigs. Alba of Rome's Alba & Francesca (who fittingly names the cut "dégradé") has left Queen Anne Marie of Greece a shaggy exile, and last week even Ingrid Bergman went Ape at the hands of Giorgio of the Via Borgognona...
...beginning, it was hell to learn," said one of the soloists, American Soprano Maria de Francesca, "but almost overnight the meaning opened up. Later, I was scheduled to sing Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Suddenly Strauss seemed awfully strange...
...Taming of the Shrew, starring the Burtons, Zeffirelli dazzles the eye with a virtuoso use of color. His camera is a Renaissance palette. Courtiers stride by in the muted gold and crimsons of Piero della Francesca; cobblestones and horsemen diminish into the serene infinities of Uccello. Visually, Shakespeare has never been better realized-and seldom has he had so sensitive a collaborator...
...include any of the near-legendary series of frescoes to which pilgrims trek, vignettes from major masters, together with larger pictures by significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips to enjoin the monks to silence...
Pudding Faces. In an artistic sense, Master E.S. was handicapped. He knew nothing of the magical discoveries in perspective being made at the time in Florence by Piero della Francesca. His was strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come...