Word: terracotta
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Today he lives and works quietly in the pink stucco Banyuls house where he was born, taking his models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect...
Boston gallerygoers recognized many a familiar Renaissance portrait, marveled at the contemporary look of Prince Ankh-haef's bust, tried to decide whether a terracotta bust of an unknown pre-Christian Roman looked more like Senator David I. Walsh or President Roosevelt. Most popular cynosure was Thomas Sully's famed, appealing portrait of a boy, The Torn Hat. Back Baynims were somewhat griped over the absence of Boston's own famed, facile society Portraitist John Singer Sargent. Retorted the Museum's Director George Harold Edgell: "In this collection, Sargent couldn't compete with Rubens, Velasquez...
Among the great artists whose works are shown both in the original and in counterfeit are Albrecht Durer, Corot, Ingres, Guardi, Bellini, and Constable. Also exhibited are originals and forgeries of Chinese bronze vessels and various Chinese jade objects, Persian miniatures, Egyptian sculptured heads, and early Greek terracotta figuriries...
...exterior of the building is now completed and the work on the interior finish far advanced. The construction is fire-proof with concrete floor and terracotta partitions. The roof, however, is of wood...
...Philadelphia and the other of a woman wearing a peplum is the one given to Harvard. It bears an inscription on its face. The second chamber was rectangular in shape and was probably used to lower the sarcophagus. In this chamber were nine sarcophagi of stone and one of terracotta. This last is in the Free Museum of Science and Art of the University of Pennsylvania. The sarcophagi are of the third or second century...