Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl Milles sculpture located in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building . . . was not mentioned in the article on this fine sculptor [TIME, July...
...poet, an obscure contemporary of Michelangelo's, was trying to describe one of the seven figures which the sculptor had carved for the Medici Chapel in Florence's Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that...
...sculptor dressed his dukes in marble armor; at first glance, they look like Roman emperors. But their gentle, dreamy expressions and gestures are not a bit Roman. They seem powerless and wise, but not with earthly knowledge. Giuliano seems to be "held upright by the magic of the Madonna at whom he is looking." The Virgin, with the Child at her breast, sits at the center of the chapel's end wall. She is the focal point around which Michelangelo's half-classical and half-Christian little universe is clustered...
Death has no sting for 73-year-old Sculptor Carl Milles...
...Milles' favorite figure is that of an old hermit philosopher, squatting like a gnome, as the sculptor had known him 50 years ago. "He had been a teacher at some university," says Milles. "But he preferred to live where people didn't know so much, and were not so conceited." Just before he died, the philosopher had poisoned his two dogs, so that they would always be with him. "So," says Milles, "I represent him sitting with his dogs, in the first moment when he arrives in the new world, and they are all united...