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...Atomic Energy Commission more than café-sitting artists. Germany boasts a group called Zero, begun in 1959 by three artists who hold Ph.D. degrees; they call for "new idealism" as opposed to the "new realism" of pop. The Italians have two op groups, the Gruppo N in Padua and the Gruppo T in Milan, which hopes to "codify visual phenomena, just as music was codified into notes...
...said that when money talks even the angels listen. In Rome rumors of thefts, mismanagement and waste began to filter into the Vatican. In 1960, Girolamo Bortignon, Capuchin Bishop of Padua, began to complain to powerful friends in the Holy See that the activities in San Giovanni Rotondo would bear an investigation. Pope John sent an emissary, Msgr. Carlo Maccari, to the busy shrine with directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing...
Everyone from a canorous finch to a detestitute soldier sings on the ride from Venice to Padua, and an extraordinary passenger list it must have been to supply twenty madrigals on a thirty mile trip. Even more extraordinary was the representation that the two women and four men in the sextet gave of characters in the boat. As Venetian fishermen, they echoed each other with subtle dynamic control. Director and basso Piero Cavalli led one texture smoothly into another. A Madrigale afettuoso, a bit too obvious in intent to touch the modern listener properly, followed fine contrapuntal fun on simple...
...Sense of Drama. Like Crivelli. Man tegna, the son of a carpenter, studied under the strict Paduan master, Francesco Squarcione. He was such a precocious pupil that, at the age of 17, he got a commission to do a number of frescoes in Padua's Ovetari Chapel. From then on his future seemed secure. He married the daughter of the painter Jacopo Bellini; the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga made him a knight, and Lorenzo the Magnificent sang his praises...
From Squarcione and from the university city 01 Padua, Mantegna learned to love Italy's classical heritage. But to classic balance and order, he added his own intense sense of drama and an audacious willingness to experiment. In the Agony, he transformed Padua into Jerusalem. There is an eerie tranquillity about the scene, like the stillness before an earth quake. As Jesus prays, soldiers are already on the way to seize him. In a few moments, his final agonies will begin...