His Portrait Work: To make the portrait of a city is a life work and no one portrait suffices, because the city is always changing. Everything in the city is properly part of its story-its physical body of brick, stone, steel, glass, wood, its life-blood of living, breathing men and women. Streets, vistas, panoramas, bird's eye views and worm's eye views, the noble and the shameful, high life and low life, tragedy, comedy, squalor, wealth, the mighty towers of skyscrapers, the ignoble facades of slums, people at work, people at home, people at play.
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CERACCHI, cha-riik'ke, Giuseppe (1751-1802), Italian sculptor, who had a reputation in his portrait work time second only to Canova's. He was born in Rome on July 4, 1751. In 1775, after studying with Tommaso Righi, he went to London, where he won praise for his portrait work work, including the statues Strength and Temperance on the facade of Somerset House and portrait busts of Lord Shelbum, Viscount Keppel, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others.
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