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Cubist take on icon of 1800s By Sebastian Smee WELLESLEY - Raymond Duchamp-Villon sculpted this terra cotta head of the poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, in 1911. Baudelaire had been dead 44 years, but what a long shadow he cast - and continues to cast. Here, with his smooth and swollen dome, his ruthless nose, his terrifyingly thin lips,...

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How the Portrait Revolution Began By Souren...

Marble portraiture appeared around that time in Florence. What is not said in the exhibition book is that portraying living characters’ heads and shoulders is an idea alien to the medieval world. It sprang up following the rediscovery of ancient Roman sculpture, and, unlike bronze makers, the sculptors who carved these marble likenesses did not copy the ancient Roman style and probably...

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