Word: sculptor
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Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
Denmark's Sculptor Jean Gauguin, 79, lives in a Copenhagen suburb, minds his own business, and seldom talks about his famed father, Painter Paul Gauguin, who went to Tahiti in 1891, died in the South Seas twelve years later. But recently, when a Danish art critic came to call, Jean molded a few details. "He was a small man," recalled Sculptor Gauguin. "His sailor's papers say 162 centimeters [5 ft. 3½ in.]. I believe he used high heels. He was rather boring and tedious, terribly ceremonious, difficult and fussy." Pressed for more, Jean said: "They also...
...until 1880 that the sculptor of the altarpiece was even known. Many scholars doubted that it was originally intended for the out-of-the-way chapel at all. Yet the altarpiece did exactly fit the altar table, and at certain times the afternoon sun would stream through the western rose window to light up the face of the Virgin Mary. It was to Mary that the linden triptych was dedicated...
From the Annunciation to her Assumption and her final crowning, Mary's life, both on earth and in heaven, is re-enacted in a series of shell-like stages that were one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance sculptor, Tilman Riemenschneider. He had come to Würzburg in 1483 as a painter's apprentice, rose to be city councilor and finally mayor. Then, during the Peasants' War, he flatly refused the bishop's order to take a stand against the rebels. He was stripped of his honors, "harshly judged and tortured," and legend...
Riemenschneider's altarpieces are the work of a man who was dramatist as well as sculptor. His figures, like actors in a play, take life from each other. When a climax comes, as in the Assumption (see color) the scene bursts with sudden passion. The wooden eyes fill with wonder, and the apostles' faces soundlessly proclaim their unforgettable experience of agony...