Word: pensieroso
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...Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a plaster cast of Michael Angelo's famous statue of Lorenzo de Medici, called "II Pensieroso," from its attitude and look of melancholy abstraction. It is said to be the second cast ever made, the first having been secured by the South Kensington. Dr. W. S. Bigelow of Boston has given the museum another plaster cast from Michael Angelo - a "Madonna and Child," at Bruges. Casts from the Apollo, Centaurs and women figures discovered at Olympia by the German expedition in 1879 have been added to the fine series already in place. They...
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