Painting with Annigoni : a halcyon decade as a student in Florence 1958-68 /
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| Author / Creator: | Cookson, Dawn. |
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| Imprint: | London : Unicorn, 2000. |
| Description: | 128 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4299921 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Meeting the Maestro
- Studio Simi
- Meeting Annigoni again
- Friends and Food
- Daily Life--Getting to know the City
- Accepted into Annigoni's Studio
- The Documentary Film
- Secretarial Work
- The Bar Daria
- Eating out with Annigoni
- Studio Life
- A Change of address and eating venues
- An evening encounter with an eccentric
- Suppers at Sostanza
- The King and Queen of Denmark dine at Sostanza
- Eating out at the Buca dell'Orafo
- My brief sojourn in Via Guicciardini
- My new apartment
- Learning to paint in tempera
- Visitors to the Studio
- Two American ladies
- Royal visitors
- Royal portraits and other famous people
- The British Royal family portraits
- Teheran: meeting and painting the Shah of Persia and Empress Farah Diba
- Other famous people
- Early fresco painting: Castagno and Florence
- 'The Sermon on the Mount'
- An unforgettable visit to a private treasure in Florence
- The painting of St Joseph the Carpenter
- Annigoni's sitters
- The glamorous Baronessa
- The socialite from Milan
- The sophisticated American
- Problems of portraiture
- The American General
- The composition 'Vita', 1957-60
- Sunday painting around Massaciuccoli
- Restful Sundays
- Events in and out of the Studio recorded in my diary of 1962
- Annigoni abroad
- More sittings with the Duke of Edinburgh
- Annigoni--the man and his family
- From London back to Florence
- A propitious encounter
- To America in the fall
- Cambridge and Boston
- Washington and Georgetown
- Return home
- Troubled Times
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments