Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bach, Mozart, Handel back on the loom," Landowska buzzed in her book Music of the Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist, or if one tried to twist Apollo's nose in order to give him more character?" The first thing to do was to remove the overstuffed romantic upholstery from the original music. The second was to rediscover the true harpsichord...
Archeologist Maiuri's men cleared away the rest of the gravel. There, astonishingly preserved, was a 7-ft. mural of Venus reclining on a sea shell, attended by cupids. Unlike most Pompeian paintings, which have been dimmed and reddened by ash, rain and time, the mural had kept most of its original luster: deep sky-blues, rosy flesh tints, bright gold for the ornaments, rich brown for Venus' hair...
...style was just as interesting. Most art historians have put the antique Roman painters down as stiff copyists of the Greeks. But the Pompeian Venus has an easy flow of line, more than a small touch of expressionism-as if the Pompeians had begun to develop a style of their own just before the destruction. Maiuri placed it as the work of an unknown artist for the home of a wealthy Pompeian gentleman some time between the earthquake of 63 A.D. and the searing eruption of Vesuvius 16 years later. The absorbent qualities of the porous volcanic gravel at that...
...Pompeii this week, Archeologist Maiuri unveiled his new Venus for 47 experts from 20 countries, who were there to dedicate an auditorium for the Pompeian Archeological Center. Until they had a chance to study her bright colors and billowing lines, he brushed off photographers eager to take careful pictures. "It's enough for now," he chuckled, "to say that she is the prototype of a Neapolitan beauty-florid, fleshy, luscious. In short, what you Anglo-Saxons would call a girl with sex appeal...
...confused with a statue in the Louvre, this Venus is a cow. The hero, David Niven, sheds his kilts to bring the captive back to England (because she is a rare breed and important to the war effort). On the way over, by submarine naturally, he picks up pert Glynis Johns, who is one of the Island's rulers masquerading as an army cook, as well as the oddest expeditionary force in movie history. On the way back Venus has a calf and David and Glynis discover true love. But it's in between the going over and the coming...