Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple whitewashed studio where he works on an open veranda under a transparent roof that keeps him from being rained out. Last week he was chipping away at a huge chunk of dazzling white plaster against the deep green grass and bright blue sky. It was the working model for the 30-ton marble reclining figure of a woman that will be placed in front of the UNESCO building in Paris. It will be completed next year...
Barbara Tettelbach, a twenty-year-old blond photographer's model from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, was chosen from 27 candidates for the role of Juliet in the forthcoming production of the Harvard Shakespearian Players, producer Maurice Ford announced Sunday night...
...Europe, handsome units of big-city living, often breathtakingly beautiful, exciting to walk through, and a breath of fresh air amidst the clutter of urban living. Against their splendid backdrops have unrolled many of the high moments of history. Through the centuries they have served as inspiration and model for the world's great architects...
Latter-day classicists have summoned up a nostalgic vision of classic Rome as an uncluttered prospect of soaring marble temples, each as immaculate as a white plaster model. The reality of the marketplace was far different. Most of its buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...
...silk factory to rival Milan, but it later turned into one of the most fashionable addresses in Paris. The square, with its colonnade, is actually a series of joined houses; by royal decree the façades were kept similar. Built of brick and stone, it became a model for Inigo Jones when he came to design Covent Garden, London's first square in the Italian manner...