Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Greek sculptor Phidias, whose statues have never been equaled for sublimity of form, would have found in this young American a perfect model...
That Harvard College should be subdivided into smaller colleges on the model of Oxford and Cambridge is the major recommendation in the report of the Student Council Committee on Education, made public last night...
...Ferargil Galleries offered for sale a statuet of Venus which has been kept obscure for many years in the gallery of a Manhattan collector. It is the work, experts say, of Praxiteles*-a figure twelve inches high representing the goddess rising from a broken wave. The arms, beautifully modeled, are intact; the legs are gone below the thighs; the lovely, epicene face is turned toward the shoulder. Was Phryne the model? Was the pose inspired by the famous painting by Appeles? All that is known is that a peasant dug it up in a brown field near Benghasi...
...Model Already Finished...
...said, "The first step has already been taken, in the erection of a scaffolding on the west side, so that we can get the measurements of the figures on that pediment. The cutting on the new group has to be done, of course, in our shop. We have the model almost finished, from which the final woodcarving must be done...