Word: michelangelo
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...last days, when his greatest sculptures-like the seated Thinker-had already passed into history, Rodin did little modeling. But the white-bearded master, who looked like a prophet by Michelangelo, saw no reason to stop working. ("I have always lived like a workman," said he, "the pleasure of working enabled me to' endure everything...
...Michelangelo Buonarroti . . . wore stockings of dogskin for months together, and when he took them off the skin of the leg sometimes came with them." Once, Pier Soderini (a Florentine politician) said he thought the nose of the David too short, so Michelangelo "took his chisel and a little loose marble dust in his hand and climbed the scaffolding. As he tapped lightly on the chisel, he let the marble dust drift down. 'I like it better now,' said Soderini. 'You have given it life...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 77, dislikes buildings "all dressed up in military fashion, heels together, eyes front. . . ." He makes his houses lie flat on the ground and stretch out. To his followers, the old master is a modern Michelangelo whose sculptures can be lived...
...America of 1946 was discovered by the judges at the A.A.U.'s national weight-lifting tournament to be an ex-sailor named Alan Stephan. He came from Cicero, Ill. and looked like a collaboration between Rome's Michelangelo, Paris' Rodin and Manhattan's Bernarr MacFadden...
...that his voice is lost in the sound-track din. But the face itself shows God's plenty. Incredibly concentrated, vigilant and severe, it has the intensity of a crucible, the ultimate, almost masklike human magnificence which may be seen in the sculpture of Michelangelo. This face is all the more impressive, when compared with leisured, restive, shy shots made in Toscanini's home, in which he is obviously as human as he is superhuman, and about as comfortably adjusted, away from his job, as a tiger in a cage...