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...Wonderful Lamp." Close by, soars a towering TV antenna in the form of Mohammed's sword. For his more mundane second commission, a central post office building, Wright sunk the main floor 11 ft. into the earth to get away from the heat, screened the glass sides with pendant iron grille, left a spacious interior garden court with fountains...
...light blue silk dress, each tuck in the dark blue chair covering, every fold of the yellow stole is lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene brow, aristocratic nose and demure mouth. Finished, it met Ingres' high standards, derived from classic Greek and Roman art; the subject stood portrayed devoid of any distracting sign...
...Washington sat for as her part of the bargain (of the three miniatures Peale painted of Martha between 1772 and 1791, only one, at Yale University, had hitherto been known)'. Mount Vernon's small, 1⅛-in.-by-1½-in. oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore the pendant during the Revolutionary War campaigns. Said Mount Vernon Director Charles Cecil Wall: "We think this miniature should be the recognized portrait...
...issue provoked centers around a thirteenth century Provencal poem by Girault de Bornelh. Graduate student Stephen Orgel claims that Norman Shapiro's recent translation in "a Cambridge literary journal," leaves out the final, and crucial, stanza. To his amusing remarks on the poem's translations Orgel adds, "as a pendant to Mr. Shapiro's translation," his own spirited rendering...
...admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany's to buy a trinket for his wife, saw a 60-carat diamond pendant he liked, wrote out a check for $91,000 and strolled out with his gift...