Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worried much about the illegible scratches and scrawls of his careless handwriting. Then, one day in 1950, while browsing at his club, he happened to spot a book containing examples of Renaissance calligraphy. One sample that caught his eye was that of Ludovico degli Arrighi, a 16th Century Vatican scribe who wrote thus...
...back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...