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...flap-footed, tank-bearing skindivers have opened a new frontier in archaeology. Last week Piero Nicola Gargallo, 30, a skindiving Italian marquis, was telling how he found the ancient Etruscan seaport of Pyrgi. On the Tyrrhenian coast just north of Rome, the city is known from historical records, but only minor traces have been found on dry land...
Local fishermen guided Gargallo to a reef where they sometimes fished up relics for sale to tourists. One mile offshore, he found weed-grown ruins, chunks of cut marble, and "something that looks like a street or a pier stretching along the bottom for about 100 ft." The ruins are in water 30 ft. to 50 ft. deep, and they cover 20 acres...
...coordinate the explorations of his skindiving friends, Gargallo has organized the Mediterranean Institute of Underwater Archaeology. In his apartment off Rome's Piazza, di Spagna, he has a map of Italy and Sicily with colored pins indicating the site of 20 to 30 ruins known to his skindivers. There is a big underwater city near Venice. Another, off Mondragone, north of Naples, runs along the bottom for nearly three miles...
Especially fascinating to Cleveland visitors were the works of two famed European experimentalists, Spaniard Pablo Gargallo and Rumanian Constantin Brancusi. Gargallo, who died in 1934, was a blacksmith whose skill with metals helped him to do some of the most intricate abstractions in modern sculpture. His bronze, Prophet (see cut), was a figure constructed half of metal and half of empty space, as a piece of music is built of sound and silence. Brancusi's work was represented by a torso composed of three softly melting cylinders and a bust, Mile Pogany, showing the subject as geometry in meditation...
Manhattan's Midtown Galleries this week showed many an excellent piece of sculpture by saturnine Herbert Ferber, 31-year-old second cousin to Novelist Edna. Like Gargallo, Sculptor Ferber has worked in a blacksmith's shop to familiarize himself with metals, but his favorite materials are wood and stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work...