The Spanish made a point of burning it in 1625, after a ten-month siege led by the brilliant Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola.

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As Dulcamara, who sells Nemorino the eponymous potion that is supposed to make Adina fall in love (it's actually wine), baritone Ambrogio Maestri comes off best.

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Gulammohammed Sheikh (b. 1937) is represented by a powerful canvas, "In and Out of Story" (1984-85), that's shown alongside images of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's majestic 14th-century Sienese frescoes and a 16th-century Mughal illustration.

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