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...contrast with these early examples of printing are three modern limited editions. One volume, that of the Bibliophile society of Boston, contains many hand-drawn illustrations. Also illustrated is the edition printed by Peter Davies of London, while the third modern product is that of the Medici society of London...
Opened in 1912, Muskegon's art gallery was named in honor of that Medici of Muskegon, the late Charles Henry Hackley who left $150,000 in 1905 for it. A lumber tycoon who at one time used to strip 30,000,000 feet of timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good...
...once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
Alessandro, Duke of Florence (Morgan), decides to have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while...
...suffered its recent noisy break-down and was replaced by the Initials Plan, the CWA did not fail to extend its benevolence to creative geniuses in the arts who were faced with starvation when the market for their products, like that for wheat, coal, and rubber, failed. Like the Medici, like Henry VIII, like Riche-lieu, a sovereign people undertook to subsidize bona fide creators...