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...heavily pregnant. We are sitting in the dining room of Lebedev's house in the ultra-exclusive enclave of Rublyovka, just west of Moscow, early this year. The house includes an underground pool with a cherub-laden fresco on the ceiling, Italian marble floors and a huge ovoid window onto a grand staircase that, Lebedev says, is typical of classical Italian architecture. Outside, there are four or five guards milling around in the driveway. Former President Boris Yeltsin once lived beyond the trees on the other side of a nearby tennis court, now covered in snow. A black BMW with...
...Romanian sculptor whose search for simplified line and form would touch something deep in Modigliani. It was through his sculptures in particular, nearly all of them totemic busts like Head of a Woman from 1912, that he would arrive at the sign system that he carried back into painting--ovoid heads on elongated Mannerist necks, with the nose a long, sharp fuselage and the mouth a pert slot just below...
...have seen it. The main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico - eight limestone pillars, today half submerged in the sand - that stands in front of a peristyle hall whose high masonry walls are inset with false windows. This entrance hall in turn opens onto a vast ovoid, some 90m across, that formed the sanctuary itself. The ovoid is enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 12m long. The afsm team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 9m beneath...
...have seen it. The main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico--eight limestone pillars, today half submerged in the sand--that stands in front of a peristyle hall whose high masonry walls are inset with false windows. This entrance hall in turn opens onto a vast ovoid, some 300 ft. across, that formed the sanctuary itself. The ovoid is enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 40 ft. long. The AFSM team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than...
Oneness had a moral value for Brancusi, as both the origin and the aim of consciousness. It is marvelously expressed in sculptures like Sleeping Muse [III], 1917-18: the ovoid head inflected only by the ghost of a mouth, the delicate V of a nose and the incisions of hair, one of which follows an existing flaw in the veined marble. Part of the magic of his work is its sensitivity to material. Substance and metaphor fuse...