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Died. Ignacio Zuloaga, 75, famed Spanish painter of some bullfighters and many socialites, self-conscious antiquarian who said he belonged to the 16th Century and set up a studio in a ruined Romanesque monastery ; in Madrid...
...Auguste Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of Rodin's flowing, literary, romantic work. Greece was Maillol's spiritual home-"Is this not Greek?" he once exclaimed of his studio, strewn with broken casts, plaster limbs, stony shards. But Maillol was no antiquarian copyist; the resemblance of his work to the Greek rested in his feeling for purities of structure and mass, never in appearance...
When the Cambridge Antiquarian Society got to work, they found that they had stumbled onto woodwork from the portal to the Old Chapel of Elizabethan days; the chapel where John Harvard worshipped and received his degree. Samples of the wood were kept, but it wasn't until 1936 that T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, realized the meaning of the wood to Harvard and brought it along with him to the Tercentenary...
After four years Challis returned to the U.S. bent on creating a type of harpsichord powerful enough to be heard in large U.S. concert halls. He introduced many improvements into harpsichord manufacture, utilized modern materials like bakelite, aluminum and nylon. "I am not an antiquarian," he explains, "my idea is simply to carry on the manufacturing of harpsichords where it left off when the instrument went out of popularity at the end of the 18th Century...
...group called themselves the Suquet Sporting & Debating Society (after a deteriorated onetime brothel that preceded Siena), spent their time visiting museums, churches, antiquarian stores, local bars. Though forbidden to go beyond the city limits, Timesman Herbert Matthews and A.P.'s Dick Massock sometimes bicycled as far as 15 miles outside town. "In Italy," says Matthews, "no laws are obeyed, least of all by the Italians." Soberest of the lot, Correspondent Matthews read Gibbons Decline & Fall, worked on a book on Italian Fascism...