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34. CRETA NELLA POLVERE<br />
Kathleen Schwarzenberg, abile scultrice, aveva<br />
uno studio a Palazzo Caetani in via delle Botteghe<br />
Oscure a Roma.<br />
Amava mettersi all’opera molto presto e fissava<br />
le pose per i ritratti alle sette del mattino. Il<br />
fotografo, lusingato dall’invito di posare per<br />
lei, lo fece per otto giorni. Il nono, appena<br />
entrati nello studio, la scultrice rimase senza<br />
fiato vedendo che l’opera in creta era caduta<br />
sul pavimento, staccatasi dall’armatura durante<br />
la notte.<br />
Lo spettacolo di un occhio qui, un orecchio lì<br />
ed il naso da solo in mezzo al pavimento era<br />
sconsolante.<br />
Il progetto del busto fu abbandonato.<br />
Roma, 1972<br />
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CLAY BITES THE DUST<br />
Kathleen Schwarzenberg, accomplished sculptor,<br />
had a studio in Palazzo Caetani in the Via delle<br />
Botteghe Oscure, Rome.<br />
She liked an early st<strong>art</strong> and arranged her sittings<br />
for portrait busts at seven in the morning. The<br />
photographer was flattered to be asked to sit, and<br />
did so for eight days. On the ninth, as they<br />
entered the studio, the sculptor gasped when the<br />
open door revealed that the clay head had fallen<br />
off its armature during the night.<br />
The spectacle of an eye here, an ear there and the<br />
nose standing by itself in the middle of the floor<br />
was dishe<strong>art</strong>ening.<br />
The project of the portrait head was abandoned.<br />
Rome, 1972
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