Word: bas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome more than five centuries ago. His bronze doors were flanked, somewhat incongruously, by plain oak ones-and have been ever since. Last week the Vatican got around to the flanking doors, commissioned two traditionalist Italian sculptors named Alfredo Biagini and Venanzo Crocetti to replace them with bronze bas-reliefs celebrating the history of the church. Critics mildly approved the Vatican's conservative choices, raised a chorus of hurrahs when they learned that it had also commissioned Giacomo Manzu, a controversial modern, to do a side door...
...sculpture, warmth is less easily achieved. The Greeks did it consistently, but few moderns care to try. Among the few is Burr Miller, whose marble Genetrix stood out at the Whitney like a breathing woman in a waxworks. Robert Cronbach's bas-relief Woman Drinking was contrastingly weightless; by hollowing out his fat, unhappy figure he had transformed her into an alcoholic cloud...
...watch the plays he directed in a miniature theater built in his garden. Village neighbors thronged to his square-dance classes. When not busy with these enterprises, Masefield still kept busy writing. More than a dozen novels, including The Box of Delights (1935), Live and Kicking Ned (1939) and Bas-ilissa (1940), poured from his pen, but his great days as a poet were past. "The office of Poet Laureate," Masefield himself once admitted, "is responsible for much of the world's worst literature...