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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sculptors began to concentrate on the episodes surrounding the birth of Jesus, and Renaissance nobles as well as churches began to commission cribs. In the early isth century the talk of Florence was a presepio designed by the young artist Bernardo Buontalenti for the son of Cosimo de Medici. One historian described it as "most singular and new, for not only did one see the heavens open and clouds descend while a quantity of angels flew about and came down to earth, but the innumerable figures all walked toward the holy manger, assuming attitudes which indeed seemed entirely natural...
Happy Papa. Cribmaking reached a peak in the 17th and 18th centuries, and there were no inhibitions against anachronism; in one Augsburg crib the Annunciation takes place in a miniature Louis XVI drawing room with the Angel Gabriel dressed like a court page...
...figurines that once composed Italy's most magnificent presepio, belonging to Bourbon King Charles III of Naples, who spent months arranging it each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector Marcello Hallecker of Naples, is shown on TIME'S cover this week. Typical of many a presepio of the period, the scene has been arranged on a replica mountainside 12 ft. across. The manger itself is all but obscured...
...fire, drive and percussion of New York's Little Flower. "I was thunderstruck by the similarity," said Morris. Bosley reads the funnies with a perfect croak, pushes back his coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower pot, belts out campaign songs in Italian and Yiddish, bursts out explosively at Tammany men with chalk-stripe suits and Shinola in their hair. He has the look...
Mankowitz' affectionate attack on the cheerfully amoral operators who are London's buccaneers of bric-a-brac, the antique dealers of Portobello Road, sparkled with the vitality of the underworld he has taken for his own. "One specializes in the people nearest one's personal archetype," says Author Mankowitz, "dealers, agents, toughies, whores, pimps, gamblers, all freelances like myself-people who work in a mètier, vestiges of primitive capitalism. These are my people...