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Much the same could be said of Armitage's own work. Barrel-bodied shapes such as his Standing Figure (see cut), with stiff, sticklike legs and doorknob heads, could have been dug out of a slag pile or found beneath Pompeii buried in volcanic ash. They represent a recent departure for Armitage, who since 1952 has moved away from his flat, screenlike groupings, created figures in the round that won him a $1,000 sculptor's award at this year's Venice Biennale...
...next two years Dumas 1) became Garibaldi's director of antiquities, 2) helped excavate Pompeii, 3) founded a Neapolitan newspaper, 4) started one novel, one biography (of Garibaldi), a history of the Neapolitan Bourbons in eleven volumes, countless articles, and a sociological study entitled "The Origin of Brigandage." The admiral gave birth to a baby girl and was put on "half-pay." Said happy papa Dumas: "I don't want to exaggerate, but I really believe that, up and down the world, I have got more than five hundred children...
...family) was a bright-eyed matron married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that "I read various works...
Since systematic excavations began in Pompeii in 1860, diggers have uncovered within the city limits the petrified-ash shells of the bodies of some 40 victims. Formed by the gradual decay of the body inside its ash wrappings, the shells retained over the years a near-perfect negative impression of the figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum...
Encouraged by his find, Archaeologist Maiuri has already started tapping for more cavities outside Pompeii's walls. The sepulchres of hundreds of other victims, he reasons, may lie between the city gates...