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...from him in an undiverted stream: not only frescoes and panel paintings and the innumerable sketches that preceded them, but also designs for palaces and villas and town houses (including his own house in Via Poma), for heraldic emblems, tapestries, urns, salvers, jewelry and every other class of luxury object a Renaissance patron might feel the itch to have. Indeed, Giulio's first job in Mantua was a tomb for the Duke's favorite dog, a long-legged bitch that had expired while giving birth to a litter of puppies...
...piece of sculpture without touching it," she emphasizes. "When I taught a class at Phillips Exeter, I told my students to close < their eyes and feel an object, feel its proportion. Then I would take it away and make them draw it. If you create something unusual, people will take the next step...
...point. "I just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with a Brancusi somewhere along...
When she did, a few weeks later, she brought an unusual-looking model: an asymmetrical black granite disk that would be 11 1/2 ft. in diameter at the top but only 20 in. across its base, an object that from a distance would appear to be floating in air. It would be 2 1/2 ft. high and have water flowing evenly and slowly across its flat surface. Underneath the water, etched in the stone and looking like points of a sundial, would be the words -- the names and the events -- that would tell the history of the civil rights...
...three students in the room, located in the new part of Quincy near the corner of DeWolfe and Mt. Auburn Sts., said they did not see who threw the object. They also said that neither they nor the police, who arrived less than five minutes later, could find the projectile...