Word: copyist
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...Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of Rodin's flowing, literary, romantic work. Greece was Maillol's spiritual home-"Is this not Greek?" he once exclaimed of his studio, strewn with broken casts, plaster limbs, stony shards. But Maillol was no antiquarian copyist; the resemblance of his work to the Greek rested in his feeling for purities of structure and mass, never in appearance...
...wave one leg feebly in the air and pray that the invasion won't come again. If there is one thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected. In regard to his copying, examine "Fon To You" and you will find "Don't Be That...
Never one to starve unnecessarily, Henri Matisse discovered that an art student could make a fair living as a museum copyist. For ten years, while his own painting swung further and further to the Left, while his interest in oriental art-Persian miniatures in particular -grew by leaps & bounds, he worked for the Government making microscopically exact copies of the great paintings in the Louvre for private collectors and provincial museums. By 1906 Artist Matisse, still youthful, but bearded as he is today, had given up copying, was the leader of an insurgent group of painters who were derisively called...
...became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became a minutante or copyist, then undersecretary of the Congregation, then pro-secretary, finally, under Pope Benedict XV, Gasparri's successor...
...morrow. Francisco Goya was born in 1746 of a remotely noble mother and a farmer father in Fuentodos. a tumbling village in Aragon. When he showed a facility for drawing, small Francisco was sent to nearby Saragossa, capital of Aragon, to study under one Luzan, a painstaking baroque copyist. There were rival churches and rival gangs and Goya, a husky, loud youth of 20, already a swordsman and perhaps a bullfighter, quickly joined the disputes. When three men were found dead in the streets one grey morning, he thought it advisable to go to Madrid. Here he drank and fought...