Paul Violi In the Banco Grosso Like many Romans the ingenious Sprezzante, the same who conceived and designed the tollbooths on the Via Dolorosa, believed a tribute should display the glory of the subject without correcting his imperfections or attempting to conceal them from the eyes of the world. Among his works here is the snazzy life-like figure of the surgeon Gianfrio, who preferred to operate in the nude. So tightly has the canvas been stretched that the indignant, the embittered, the vengeful, are often re-injured by the rebounding objects they throw at it, and have to be taken back to the hospital. Next |