Word: cellini
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...privileged position in their renowned architectural monograph. It is a monument to the splendor of the American Gilded Age and is an irreplaceable example of an historic episode in art and architectural taste. It can no more be created today than one could create a Botticelli tondo or a Cellini bronze: its makers have died and, with them, a precious moment in history. It is the high calling of great institutions--universities, cathedrals and museums--to preserve, protect and defend such architectural legacies--these exemplars of human genius--from the ravages and vagaries of man and time...