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...most ambitious sculptural scheme of modern times was rising last week in Oslo's Frogner Park. It was the life work of Norway's leading sculptor (and eccentric), Gustav Vigeland, who died in 1943, aged 74. Not since Michelangelo, claimed one critic, had a sculptor chiseled such a forest of figures-over 100 separate versions of the human form, in granite and bronze, standing, reclining, cavorting, caressing, all over some 190 grassy acres. Vigeland simply ignored the Nazi invaders, and they let him go on with his sculpture. The work took 40 years to complete, cost Norwegian taxpayers...
...Giotto's tinted and delicate campanile; Brunelleschi's great cathedral dome which, looming above the huge round windows of its supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued...
Says Dr. Gumpert: "Old age and senility are no more necessarily related than infancy and rickets." At 79, Michelangelo began to write sonnets; at 73, Galileo published his discoveries on the revolutions of the moon; at 82, Goethe finished Faust; at 88, John Wesley preached every day; at 78, Franklin became U.S. Ambassador to France; after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents...
Partisans of Adam & Eve navels include no known Communists (as professional atheists, Communists do not believe in Adam & Eve), do include such great Renaissance religious painters as Tintoretto, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted a navel on his recumbent figure of Adam in the Pope's Sistine Chapel, died (1564) without ever having heard of Karl Marx, Stalin or Earl Browder...
Late in his life, Leonardo spent two un happy years in Rome. He found it increasingly difficult to finish work, and impossible to compete with such productive paint ers as Michelangelo and Raphael. Finally Leonardo's health began to fail; his right hand became paralyzed. At 64, he took his intimate friend, Francesco Melzi, and two servants to the Court of Frangois I at Tours. Leonardo died in France...