Word: craftsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar sends an envoy, Publius Lentulus, to Palestine to secure information concerning Jesus of Judea. Lentulus reports the power and Influence of the Christ upon the people under Pontius Pilate. The Emperor is so much troubled and impressed by the report that he sends his master craftsman to draw the likeness of Jesus. This picture when shown to Caesar in Rome is so striking that he orders it transferred to a huge emerald from the treasury...
...Bachelder, pottery craftsman of the old school, who was a poverty-stricken failure at 58, is now, ten years later, one of the most sought-after ceramic artists in America. He lives frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from...
...they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives employment are chiefly the Dutch, German and French. They work in all mediums-from redwood to Circassian walnut. They do not greatly resent the encroachments of the machine age, for they recognize its assistance to the craftsman. Machines rough out much of the work for the hand-carver to finish, and a composition of sawdust and glue is much used for the conventional work. The pieces displayed include every variety of ornamental and utilitarian furniture, from German altar pieces to Grandfather clocks and Chippendale suites. The chef...
...akin to yours comes to every man who, within the limits of his opportunities, has developed his capacities to the utmost, and today all recognize that the craftsman may be as big a success in his line as any in the professions...