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...that air of death, Sculptor Chiapasco took a new lease of life. For the morgue entrance he fashioned a monumental marble of Orpheus (reversing the legend) saying his last farewell to Eurydice&#1515upremum Vale. Death masks were made of every person brought in. Numbered, indexed and neatly mounted on the studio wall, they served as the morgue's photographic file. Profoundly moved by some of these faces, Artist Chiapasco modeled from them his ambitious works. He lined a corridor with bas-reliefs of Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Among the Dead | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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