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Psousennes' pink granite funerary chamber is rectangular, 23 by 10 ft. The big granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...
...make it sparkle, concealing greyness and flaws in the crystal. Today, such firms as Orrefors in Sweden and Steuben in the U. S. produce glass so flawless that it can be cut to contrast a silhouetted design against clear, elusive crystal. By an optical illusion, the cuts appear as bas-relief. Steuben's skilled craftsmen took the commissioned artists' sketches, blew and engraved every piece by hand. Prices ranged from $400 for Jean Hugo's classical urn with centaur and unicorn to $1,000 for Henri Matisse's Oriental piper...
...first time, Chicago will see sculpture of Michelangelo in the original (a bas-relief Madonna and Child), Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Mantegna's St. George, Raphael's Madonna and the Chair. Despite official denials, it is fairly obvious that Italy's masterpieces will tour the U. S. until World War II blows over. In explaining why the show was given to Chicago rather than New York City, suave Prince Colonna observed that the latter was "too near...
Besides her own chapters on bas-relief, composition, portraiture, drapery and the techniques of enlarging and reducing, Sculptor Putnam gracefully includes chapters on ceramics by Carl Walters, on stone and marble carving by Robert A. Baillie, on wood carving by Gleb Derujinsky and on bronze casting by Anton Basky. Her advice to sculptors: learn to be poor and keep in good condition...
When in the money, the entire Picasso gang" often came home very late, drunk as bedbugs, singing, declaiming poetry and shouting such slogans as "A bas Laforgue...