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...statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet's shadow, the curling beard still dusted with thin flakes of gilt, revealed the face...
...bronze; he would not have known what to do with the "lacquer and precious stones" that Pausanias talked about. He doubtless made this god, like his others, of Parian marble, or the pale veined marble from Naxos; artisans polished the stone until it resembled ivory, and added the gilt. The head discovered by Professor Guidi bears evidence of such gilding and polishing. What happened to the original? Did scavengers destroy it? Did the Romans remove it to Byzantium, and did it crumble in the fire that consumed that city in 475 A. D.? Phidias, with money enough to settle...
...Joseph has, with characteristically sensational effulgence, bedizened the new galleries in green marble doorways, marble parquets, gilt ceilings, much after the fashion of his celebrated "torture rooms" deep within his fancy Fifth Avenue establishment. Of course there were paintings at Tate too-especially, 14 Sargents whose noble canvases have not become so numerous on the art-dealers' shelves as to be in need of much publicity, preceding facile disposal. A notable picture hung was that of the beheading of John, the Baptist, by Puvis de Chavannes. Degas was well represented as well as some brilliant paintings by Bancini, Daumiur...
...sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various colors, and furniture beyond the dreams of Park Ave. All these, the gilt dining-rooms clotted with music, the cool oasis of the lobby, and the long line of brilliantly-lighted cages wherein clerks work busily, adding up bills and putting diamonds away in steel lockers, these and the magazine-stall, shingled with bright colors, the crystal glory of the cigar-stand...
...Madrid, Mr. Ogden Haggerty Hammond, President of the Hoboken Terminal Co., rode in a golden coach. The coach received its first coat of gilt in the 16th Century; so did four other coaches which rumbled after...