After Pinault's first Stingel purchase, Geuna took him to meet the Italian artist in his New York studio.
Collectors and dealers also flocked to Lucio Fontana, the Italian artist who gained international fame in the 1950s by slashing his monochrome canvases with a knife.
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Italian artist Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) -- better known as Canaletto -- painted the piece (seen above) while living in London in the 1740s and 1750s.
After the match the American was presented with the world number one trophy for 1999, made of Waterford crystal and designed by Italian artist Gianni Celano Gianicci.
The Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, designed by the Italian artist Piranesi in the 18th Century, is decked with enigmatic symbols, the overall effect being of a Piranesi engraving that has sprung to life.
After a boy named Reza Shahid gets beaten up on the playground, she enters an intense relationship with his Italian artist mother and Lebanese intellectual father that makes her rethink her place in the world.
The dungeons of the Castel Sant'Angelo, a papal fortress just near the Vatican, inspired the 18th Century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi to create his famous series of imaginary etchings of Roman prisons - I Carceri.
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The work of Italian still-life artist Giorgio Morandi provided the genesis for the painter's table, if not for the entire undertaking.
Other winners included classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic, who took the award for breakthrough artist of the year, and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who collected the prize for best international artist.
"Bello Mania" includes a slideshow paying tribute to his mother and father, an Italian acrobat and Swiss tightrope artist who met while touring with Ringling Bros. during the 1950s.
Built in 124 A.D. as a temple to all the gods of Rome, the Pantheon remains today as a Catholic church and a tomb for Italian luminaries, such as the artist Raphael and King Vittorio Emmanuelle II.
Then he launched and ran an artist residency program in an Italian castle and for five years ran a similar program at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.
Such is artist Damien Hirst's love of the more genteel Panerai Italian watch brand that he uses them as inspiration for his art.
Funds could not be raised for paintings by French artist Antoine Watteau, Venetian painter Francesco Guardi and an early 19th Century Italian classical tripod.
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