Augustus Saint-GaudensHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 - 85 Seiten |
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... Italy for inspiration , were confronted by a kind of unwritten law which left inspiration , in the strict sense , outside the pale of respectable things . In the studios all over Europe masters and pupils were united on the principle ...
... Italy for inspiration , were confronted by a kind of unwritten law which left inspiration , in the strict sense , outside the pale of respectable things . In the studios all over Europe masters and pupils were united on the principle ...
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... misread the lesson of the Italian Renaissance , which is that the complicated web of super - subtle light and shade , legitimate in a large Madonna by Mino , say , is better ex- changed , in a medallion , for the strong simplicity II.
... misread the lesson of the Italian Renaissance , which is that the complicated web of super - subtle light and shade , legitimate in a large Madonna by Mino , say , is better ex- changed , in a medallion , for the strong simplicity II.
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... Modelled in New York immediately after the sculptor's return from Italy . Mr. Evarts was one of his first patrons , and this was the first portrait bust that Saint - Gaudens exe , cuted . mental base for the bronze . It is well to EVARTS.
... Modelled in New York immediately after the sculptor's return from Italy . Mr. Evarts was one of his first patrons , and this was the first portrait bust that Saint - Gaudens exe , cuted . mental base for the bronze . It is well to EVARTS.
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Adams monument American sculpture angel ANNO DOMINI AVGVSTVS SAINT-GAVDENS BASTIEN LEPAGE beautiful Boston bronze of Marcus bust caryatides Chapin monument Chicago Cornelius Vanderbilt days in Paris denoting a virtue departure for Samoa equestrian statue exedra face Farragut figure French Gaudens genius George W GILDER Modelled grandeur hand hero should speak Homer Saint-Gaudens house of Cornelius impression JACOB H JAMES MCCOSH Joan of Arc keen craftsman LANDING OF COLVMBY Lincoln Logan loved Manasquan Maynard MCCOSH This memorial medal medallions Miss Violet Sargent Modelled in Paris modern Morgan tomb never pecially where public pedestal perfect PETER COOPER phatically the word President of Princeton Princeton was erected public monuments Puritan relief Renaissance RICHARD WATSON GILDER Robert Louis Stevenson Saint SCHIFF sculptor sculptor's early days Shaw Sherman Smith tomb Stanford White studio style thought tomb at Hartford tomb at Newport touched traits unmistakable terms alike unveiled virtue which embraces WOY WOY WOY York
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Seite 39 - And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I praise him not; it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Seite 32 - ... Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But by...
Seite 32 - His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface And thwart her genial will ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked...
Seite 32 - But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! They knew that outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind...