Word: tanagra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the show's most surprisingly low-priced hits were the Greek terra cottas (opposite}. Starting with the Tanagra woman and reading clockwise, their price tags read: $517.50, $115, $345 and $230. The makers of the terra cottas were low-caste artisans, often slaves, who turned out art by the ovenful, like cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear...
Mostly, the cast is one that Homer might have approved. In her revealing classical finery, Silvana Mangano is as provocative and enticing as a Tanagra figurine. Rossana Podesta plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach...