Word: laboredness
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They labored against heavy odds: in an age of disappearing palaces and severely plain public buildings, there is little incentive for carving statues. Except for a handful of men like Jo Davidson, who get fancy commissions for portraits, monuments and fountains, nobody makes big money these days out of sculpturing...
The painters designed scenery for the Nativity dramas, and afterwards labored in their silent studios to preserve the immediacy of the plays in paint. One who succeeded was an obscure master named Bernardino Luini, living in Milan. For such artists as Luini, the birth of Christ was not merely a...
Giovanni Bellini achieved more than one such masterpiece, creations not only of his own genius but also of the age and place in which he lived. While Baldovinetti labored in Florence, and Luini in Milan, Bellini breathed the glittering, clear splendor of Venice, which lay like a wide galleon of...
Nose-Grinding. Through all his grumbles and rising gorges, Edward Lear painted furiously. He rose before dawn, trudged about all day until he found a landscape that pleased him. Then, after myopically surveying the scene over his spectacles, he began his hasty sketches on odd-shaped scraps of paper from...
Camouflaging her nostalgia behind a five-paragraph facade of labored derision--"the Harvard man is stooped, bespectacled, and loathes football"-- SCAN's own Mary Latson finally reveals her true sentiments with a jealous blast at Radcliffe monopoly. "Where there's Harvard, there's ALWAYS Radcliffe," she wails.