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Jimmy Venturi's new website...
2005.10.12 09:19
Funny how A View from the Campidoglio is rarely, if ever, remembered. Taken literally (which happens to be the title of the painting that Venturi asked about), the view from the Campidoglio is indeed the Campo Marzio.
[And when it comes to "still what they're selling" "we are all mirrors that have to see ourselves regardless."]
The 8 August anniversary date of Venturi's first arrival at Rome got me thinking. I opened my 1977 Italian study tour journal and it begins:
"August 8, 1977
Fully packed for Rome. Luggage weighs 33 lbs.; I weigh 172 lbs. Leaving for New York with $107.00"
We arrived at Rome late 11 August.
Paul Rudolph died 8 August 1997.
Peter Eisenman was born 11 August 1932
Jackson Pollock died 11 August 1956
I was on a train from Florence to Rome when a young American couple told me that Elvis Presley had died.
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