Word: goldsmithing
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Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), a butcher's son, was the eldest and founder of the Carracci's Academy, by preference specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he excelled in etching, and his paintings of broad-bottomed nudes are among the Carracci's best...
...cover story on Marilyn Monroe, you may be delighted to have brought to your attention that the 18th century had its own Monroe, Dorothy, a beauty of the day celebrated for similar endowments. In thanking his friend Lord Clare for the gift of a haunch of venison, Oliver Goldsmith licked his chops and said...
Thus Oliver Goldsmith saw the inhabitants of 18th century London. Their armies under Marlborough had defeated Europe's greatest power on its own soil; they had overthrown the old religion and prospered. The revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody slogans of church-state and King-Commons still echoed in English ears, and men who no longer wished to hear a bugle or a Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick...
...jape had a slow first act (more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave, Hermione Gingold, Walter Fitzgerald) that made the conceits and posturings of Restoration comedy as palatable as they are ever likely to be on television...
Your picture story [Sept. 5] on American horses was beautifully done. But shades of Hambletonian, Goldsmith Maid, Maud S., Dan Patch and Greyhound, how did you ever forget the most populous tribe of them all, the standardbred...