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Word: vatroslav (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teach at Syracuse University. The rest of the time he pads about in beret and white smock, puffing king-sized cigarettes and working furiously at a whole array of statues. For the University of Vienna, Mestrovic is modeling a portrait bust in plaster of the famed Croatian scholar, Vatroslav Jagic (1838-1923); he has just shipped off a 6-ft. bronze of St. Anthony for Oxford University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland, honoring Montenegro's 19th century poet and prince-bishop, Petar Njegos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Life Begins at 70 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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