Word: flaxman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharing the neo-classical sentiment of the period, Wedgwood called his factory "Etruria," and kept a stable of designers in Rome to copy new relics for him as soon as they were dug up. His pet employee, John Flaxman, whom he reserved for designing plaques, intaglios and ornamental urns, sometimes surpassed the classic models...
...classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published without scholarly notes or impediments and with Flaxman's beautiful 18th-Century drawings as illustrations...