Word: carrara
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...Kennedy family saga is an epic tangle of true legends and legendary truths. The father, with his bottomless checkbook and flair for p.r., cast his clan in flawless Carrara marble, more beautiful than human flesh - but in the long run, less compelling. To his younger children - especially the youngest, Ted - fell the difficult job of reconnecting a family of statues, dead icons, to the living and the vital and the real. (See pictures of a Kennedy Family album...
...Cody in 1964 has a demure flat-roof-and-steel-beam structure that pays homage to the uncomplicated designs of German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But the interiors are straight-up '60s opulent: there are travertine walls and an arena-size master bathroom clad entirely in Carrara marble...
...tuberculosis that would kill him in 1920, at age 35--Modigliani became consumed by art as a child. In his early teens he quit school to study drawing full time, and in the years that followed he would study painting in Florence and sculpture in the marble quarries of Carrara. By 1906 he was ready for Paris. It was by then the cockpit of modernity, the Paris of Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck. Some of the first canvases in this show are portraits of women painted in Modigliani's earliest style, a gaunt Expressionism bearing all the signs of Edvard...