Word: alburtus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, neatly dusted off, 20 of Sculptor Browere's busts were exhibited in Manhattan's plushy Knoedler Galleries. Their realism predates the candid camera by a century. Browere's exact method died with his son Alburtus, differed markedly from the usual life mask's heavy layer of plaster or clay applied while the subject is flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson...
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