Apollonaire
See also:  [The Banquet Years] (Sir Monty Stattuck and his avant garde bandiliers!)

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Apollonaire

Apollonaire (b.1880, Rome; d.1918, Paris)
aka "Guillaume de Kostrowitsky"

  "Born of a Polish mother and a Swiss-Italian
   father, A. used to like to pass himself off
   as the son of an Italian prelate. An 
   extraordinary character and an in-ordinate
   hoaxer, but at the same time a poet of 
   captivating charm and sincerity, A. played
   a most important role in the history of modern
   art. One of his claims to distinciton -- and by
   no means the lest -- stems from his having 
   perpetuated the tradtion started by 1800c 
   French poets headed by Baudelaire of 
   devoting some of their finest works to the
   exaltation of the plastic arts, particularly
   the new painting of their time."
   -- Maurice Raynal, in Dictionary of Art