Word: michelangelo
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...Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris...
...designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed...
...Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square. He studied under Rodin, was for a time submerged by his master's style but finally broke away, developed a style of his own which experts today consider as genuinely MILLES as Michelangelo's was MICHELANGELO. He has the grave face of a Catholic priest, the soft, calm voice of a man who sees far beyond reality. Two years ago he be came a U. S. citizen...
...return to his garret and get to work on a painting of Washington at Valley Forge. Better men than he have learned that the pensioner must choke his muse, dry his tears, and paint, write, or chisel as he is told. Erasmus, for example, and Samuel Johnson. Only a Michelangelo could take a papal salary, tell the Cardinals to stick to their breviaries, and finish St. Peter's as he damn well pleased...
...apartment for which he pays 60 rubles per month (including telephone, radio, gas & light). He keeps one maid. To those who knew his work, his design for the Palace of the Soviets came as no surprise, for he learned most of his profession in Rome, admires classical architecture and Michelangelo, has already built near Rome a circular, colonnaded Jewish cemetery. In Moscow, his best work is the First House of the Soviets (apartments...