Word: prometheus
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...Medal (no cash) for the best oil, awarded in the past to such masters as Whistler, Winslow Homer and George Bellows, went to Louis Guglielmi of Manhattan for his New York 21, an expert semi-abstraction. Lithuanian-born Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz admitted that he was bucked up when his Prometheus Strangling the Vulture, a powerful, aggressively ugly study in plaster, won the top sculpture award. A few days after he sent Prometheus off to Philadelphia for the academy show, fire destroyed his Manhattan studio, along with ten years of work in models, sketches and drawings. "Part of my life...
...Prometheus Unbound...
...Philadelphia Museum announced last week that it had bought a Rubens masterpiece, Prometheus Bound, to help celebrate its diamond jubilee. Purchased from a London dealer for a price estimated at somewhere between $65,000 and $100,000, the picture had belonged to the Dukes of Manchester for almost three centuries. Philadelphia Museum Director Fiske Kimball called it "one of the supreme examples" of Rubens' "dynamic energy and bold plasticity...
Rubens, who was fond of the picture himself, once described it more modestly in a letter offering it for sale to a 17th Century collector: "A Prometheus bound on Mount Caucasus; with an Eagle which pecks his liver. Original, by my hand, and the Eagle done by Snyders.* Nine feet high by eight feet wide." Rubens' asking price was also modest: 500 florins (about...
...handsomest of all the Caucasians are the aristocratic Abkhasians, who trace their lineage back to Prometheus; if the stranger doesn't believe it, they point out the Caucasian rock to which he was chained by Zeus for stealing the Olympian fire. Local legends say that the Abkhasians are endowed with a beauty that must one day prove their undoing, but from the Caucasus last week came news that one of the handsomest of them all was still doing fine. Mamsir Kiut was a boy of 17 when Napoleon marched on Moscow. In the village of Kindig, he took time...