Word: sculptor
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...Editors delight in pictures of paintings with the painter named; in sculptures with the sculptor named; in articles on trials with the lawyer named; in music with the composer named; in books with the author named, etc., etc. But the poor architect . . . must, alas, take a back seat to the photographer who snaps his masterpiece...
...Sandpile. Sculptor Nivola's method is simple enough to inspire a whole school of do-it-yourself followers. Trained during his boyhood as a mason and stucco decorator before he won a scholarship at Milan's Art Institute, Nivola was struck one day by the fact that his sand doodles could be cast simply by reversing the patterns and filling them with plaster or concrete. When the first casts came up covered with fine-grained sand Nivola was delighted to discover that they combined the texture of sand with the permanence of stone...
...renowned for winder-working properties. But only in recent decades have Brazilians recognized that the church itself is a priceless part of the nation's heritage, largely because of the brooding presence of twelve soapstone prophets sculpted for the stairway (see opposite) by Brazil's first great sculptor, Antonio Francisco Lisboa...
...little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some of the most handsomely rococo churches in South America. On these young António Francisco worked, first as carpenter, later as architect and sculptor...
...British Sculptor Butler's kinship with a Danish Bronze Age craftsman, see cuts...