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Major Retrospective, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, opens Jan. 30 at WUSTL's Kemper Art Museum
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Washington University in St. Louis issued the following news release:
WHAT: The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University will host Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish- American architect who designed the St. Louis Gateway Arch. The exhibit will remain on view at the Kemper Museum through April 27. A second exhibition, On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch, highlights the history of the St. Louis waterfront and includes selected submissions from the 1947 competition, including Saarinen's ...
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Painters, poets, patrons, plotters The Pazzi conspiracy to overthrow the Medici - and its brutal aftermath - shows the flip-side of Renaissance Florence, says John Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...lasting consequences than the Pazzi conspiracy of April 1478: the botched coup...than their banking rivals, the Pazzi. Only by destroying the Medici...was concluding, Francesco de' Pazzi rushed forward and furiously stabbed...
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Beaufrand, Mary Jane. Primavera.(Young adult review)(Book review)(Brief review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; ...Pazzi to an eligible Medici son. But Signor Pazzi is moving in a military direction. As plans...with the extreme and brutal violence of the Pazzi Conspiracy. This fictional account of Flora Pazzi brings another side of the Renaissance into...
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To illuminate history: making history picture-perfect.
Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
; ...prominent role when my class examines the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478, a plot to kill Lorenzo de Medici...consent of citizens in order to rule. The conspiracy was hatched by a rival business family, the Pazzi, and had the support of Pope Sixtus IV...
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Art: Mine is the power and the glory Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s National Gallery, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...to this puzzle. In 1478, conspirators backed by the Pazzi family attacked the Medici brothers at Mass in Florence...in the fray, Lorenzo was stabbed in the neck. The Pazzi conspiracy was merely the most dramatic sign of an anti-Medicean...
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November 24-30, 2008
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Historian Marcello Simonetta, author of The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, presents a lecture...Ave. NW. Simonetta's book is an account of the Pazzi Conspiracy, a 15th-century assassination attempt on the Medici...
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NOVEL IDEA
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; ...Verrocchio, a corpulent man of nobility, visits Leonardo Da Vinci on a sun-split Sunday. They discuss the Pazzi conspiracy which had left "27 victims to perish by vengeful swords." Leonardo is subsequently commissioned by the Seigniory...
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Zero tolerance in Florence
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...firmly in that Florentine ambience whose outlines he drew with such masterly strokes in April Blood, a study of the Pazzi conspiracy and Lorenzo de' Medici's rise to power. Seward, a practising Catholic, is eager that we should see his subject...
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The Medici in Florence: The Exercise and Language of Power.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...threatening to Medici power (Piero de' Medici's opponents in 1466 had been knighted by the Parte). Following the Pazzi conspiracy the Medici, while acquiescing in its existence, emasculated the Parte. The essay on Lorenzo and the Reformers...
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BRILLIANCE, SCHOLARSHIP BRING NEW COLOR TO MICHELANGELO.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...meditation on metaphysics, the poem tells a powerful story with characters we come to care about. We learn of the Pazzi Conspiracy, a coup in Florence in which priests carried out stabbings in church and 80 people were hanged. "And then the...
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Botticelli's Venus and Mars and other apotropaic art for Tuscan bedrooms.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art
; ...and Giovanni needed apotropaic imagery. Jacopo was a member of a family that had challenged Medici rule during the Pazzi conspiracy. The marriage was integral to Lorenzo's strategy of neutralizing conspirators by including his rivals in a broad...
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