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...Doors of Death for St. Peter's in Rome (TIME, July 24). Designed for the portal of the Palazzo d'ltalia, the bronze plaques replace a blatant bit of Mussolini modern-a 1935 glass panel of a lump-shouldered shoveler by one Attilio Piccirilli, inscribed ART IS LABOR; LABOR IS ART. "Brutto!" exclaimed Manzù when he saw it and, commissioned by the Fiat automobile company, engraved in 1963 his own images in bronze...
...bright for the tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph. . . . The power of words...
Certainly enjoyed your article on the Piccirilli brothers [TIME, July 29]. Wish you had told the world where to find the glorious statue of President Monroe. It's in the proper spot at Ash Lawn, Monroe's old home, next door to Jefferson's beloved Monticello at Charlottesville. Va. Every one should see this statue; it's an inspiration and more beautifully placed than any of the Piccirilli works you mention. It's at home -in the midst of Monroe's own beautiful boxwood garden...
...five Piccirilli brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
Forty-five years ago Father Piccirilli moved from central Manhattan to The Bronx, built a red brick house across several city lots with a large carriage door through which to haul out big sculptures. His sons he sent back to Italy one by one to study at Rome's Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln...