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  When SHIRLEY TEMPLE, perhaps the most beloved of a Hollywood child stars, retired she became the wife of Charles Black and raised three children in the hills of Burlingame in northern California. At the time of this photo, she had come out of retirement to host SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S FAIRY …

  ROMANTIC AND BOURGEOIS The great epoch-making changes at the end of the 1700s-beginnings of the 1800s also profoundly influenced aesthetic and culture. The French Revolution was the first to sanctify the modern political symbolism of colors, with its red, white and blue trininial, making them a distinctive sign of …

  Her husband rests his large fist, gloved in white on the handrail of the loggia. GEORGE BARBIER 1914

        GROUP OF ANGELS – XII CENTURY FRESCO – CHURCH OF SAN PIETRO AL MONTE, CIVATE   The angels hovering in flight with their great wings are dressed in mannered apparel; this is witnessed by the loose dalmaticas decorated with clubs whose wide sleeves allow you to …

  I anxiously look at his neck: “Why is it so thick?” I ask. It’s the neck of an athlete, a wrestler. We should make it more delicate, thinner. “We had the same problem with Rubini”, I murmur to the makeup artist. Benigni who heard says: “Of course I don’t …