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...Life of Benvenuto Cellini...
...Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), famed Spanish court painter, who lived a life about as regular as that of Benvenuto Cellini. He served for a time with a "quadrilla" of bullfighters and much of his work savors of the bull ring. In recent years he has been much venerated for his bold technique. The plates of Goya's etchings are owned by the Spanish Government, and while the impressions made in Goya's time are rare and expensive, modern prints from the old and worn plates are struck off in cheap profusion...
...gallery are the collection of U.S. sculpture, the department of decorative arts (European styles), the Altman collection (Chinese decorated and monochrome porcelains, paintings, rock crystals, Benvenuto Cellini's cup, Renaissance decorative arts, oriental rugs, French art) and five galleries of prints...
Exploits began before this latter- day Benvenuto left his rural play-fields (Newark, N. J.) to cross the game-infested Campagna (the Jersey flats) and seek his fortune in gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels...
Certain amorous adumbrations add a behavioristic bond to McDougall's kinship with Benvenuto. And in a literary way, they twin across the centuries. Their kind of writing is vivid, newsy, racy without stint...