Word: ironworks
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...Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor John Held, argues that the Cleveland painting has the sort of minor details-the birds, the elaborate ironwork on Diana's lance, the foreground foliage-that "are not infrequently added by copyists to make their pictures more superficially interesting." In one matter Getty's canvas is more detailed: Diana, who is barelegged in Cleveland's version, wears sandals and leggings in Getty's. But even...
David Smith, 53, is the best of the living "ironmongers." His raw, openwork constructions of iron, silver and stainless steel stem from Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
...more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid to relatives of the victims...
Lyon was no mere horseshoe man; he had a devil of a way with all sorts of ironwork, including intricate locks. Once he was commissioned to build a strongbox and did the job with customary thoroughness. Being disappointed in his fee, Lyon snapped the box shut. Since no one else could reopen it, the box stayed shut until Lyon got double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully...
Professor Conant's plan call for replacing the wartime roof with the old-style gray slate, adding a touch of red striping for color. He also would return the ironwork fence, the original weather vanes, and the three small pinnacles which rose above each clock face...