Word: craftsmen
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...oversee the making of some of the reproductions, which are produced by leading art-reproduction craftsmen in America and Europe, he hired Christine Roussel, former manager of the Reproduction Studio of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as one of his advisers. Rockefeller personally supervised the recasting of the bronze objects and the hand painting of the copies of his rare Meissen china. For the reproduction of paintings, he decided against the often used lithographic method in favor of the Cibachrome photographic process, which closely captures the color of the originals...
...carved more than 100 heraldic shields, ornaments, pinnacles and corbels to decorate the cathedral inside and out; his last accomplishment is the royal coat of arms, 5 ft. by 5 ft., over the west doorway-a task that took him nine months. He also enjoyed a privilege few craftsmen have experienced since the Middle Ages. He was present to see his monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, preside over the dedication of Liverpool's Cathedral Church of Christ, 74 years after it was begun...
...Robards. The director is Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men), a major cinematic stylist who works equally well with actors and ideas. Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Interiors), though overly enraptured with the poetic uses of shadows, is one of the top craftsmen in American movies. There's only one wild card in this impressive pack: first-time Screenwriter Dennis Lynton Clark. His script is dry, but that does not absolve his colleagues from the responsibility of juicing...
...beneath it, and before long, their hunch is confirmed. Just below the surface, they uncover a huge limestone slab, or stela, inscribed with Mayan symbols. A little deeper they find the tomb, filled with jade and alabaster jewelry, brilliantly colored ceramic platters and other priceless antiquities created by Mayan craftsmen long before Columbus reached the shores of the New World...
...sendorfer, which employs 135 craftsmen at its factory in Wiener Neustadt and 100 more in the finishing plant in Vienna, is Cartier of keyboard makers. With European Steinways made in Hamburg, and Bechstein, another grand old veteran, based in Berlin, the Bösendorfer is part of a tiny musical elite: what aficionados consider the triumvirate of pianistic excellence. But in price and - some think - even tone, Bösendorfer has the edge. Its 9-ft. 6-in. grand costs $38,000 (Steinway's largest U.S. model, 8 ft. 11% in., costs $17,220), and its smallest piano...